 Hello, my name is John Hegley and the British Library has asked me to look through some of my notebooks and old files and I found a drawing here of a dromedary or a camel and You'll see it's got the one hump there This is a goat which hasn't got any humps at all But it's got two horns there and its legs are a bit short, but don't worry about that, you know This is a very small animal called an amoeba. It looks as though it's a bit like a fried egg That dot on the eye is actually about how big it is in actual fact and it divides To make new ones of itself. That's amoeba This here is a terrapin Yeah, and this is an armadillo which has the Latin name of Daisypus novencinctus And I'm gonna make up a song about this. Well, I've made the song up already But I'm gonna sing it for you now on my cavacchina My mommy she bought me an armadillo. I kissed him and I kept him under my pillow And I cleaned him with a brillo pad Now some of you may be wondering what a brillo pad is. A brillo pad is what you use to clean your armadillo He was shiny and tiny and he came from Peru His name was Armadayus, but we used to call him Toby He had a suit of armor and he borrowed about The hills and the daffodils he turned him inside out And his mommy used to shout at him when he came home covered in graffiti He was an insectivorous creature the teacher used to say and the dog next door the carnivore would sometimes come and play We had racers and jacers down by the riverside And sometimes we'd go swimming and sometimes we wouldn't And he had ants and beetles for dinner every day Them creepy crawlers he could put them away And he did his indoor doings in his indoor doings tray But one day in the winter when the willow tree was bare I looked under my pillow there was no armadillo there So I ran downstairs and I said to my mommy, mommy, where's he gone? She was having a game of rummy and she looked up and she said John Go and put some clothing on you nearly 24. I said mommy. It's an emergency and I ran out in the roar I ran down to the riverside and in a rowing boat I saw Toby in the distance With the dog next door so That's an armadillo song and sometimes I just write poems about the pieces and sometimes I do things called an Acrostic where you take the word and you put it down the side of the page and you say some a word for each letter so L open wide Lids because they've got big wide open lids and OWL Language so you can make up some longer animal names For instance, you could try couldn't you you could try making up an acrostic for Dazipus? Novem sinctus the armadillo That would be a bit of fun Don't worry about making it to do with the animal. It could it could be daily Arthur says And you can go on from there Anyway, the last song is about a parrot and this is a song really I suppose there is an element of a vision in this of people being nice to each other Not if somebody's a bit strange. Don't worry about it too much and let them develop and they could help you Peter the orange parrot had a very tiny beak Unlike the other parrots. He was never heard to speak But they were never nasty to him Peter the non-talking parrot The he just thought that he was a Very very fluffy carrot Then one sunny jungle day Santa Claus got lost and Peter with the tiny beak Suddenly was heard to speak and he directed Santa Claus back to lap land To be in the lap of all the other lovely laps while the other parrots had been talking Peter had been reading maps Thank you very much for listening get right in your own