What I think of Pobby and Dingan so far

Pobby and Dingan is an interesting book, and I like it very much. It is easy to read except for some of the slang words that I did not know. I looked up some of the words like “fruit loop” (page 1) on my translator, but I still do not understand what “Fairdinkum” (page 4) means. The story was easy to follow, even when I did not know some words and could not find what they meant.

At the start of the book, I thought that the brother was mean to his sister about her friends Pobby and Dingan. He made her cry. I thought that he was really mean when he pretended to hit Pobby and Dingan.

Kellyanne glared at me through tears the way she did the time I slammed the door of the ute in Dingan’s face or the time I walked over to where Pobby was supposed to be sitting and punched the air and kicked the air in the head to show Kellyanne that Pobby was a figment of her imaginings.” (Pages 1-2)

Kellyanne’s mother was very kind to her about Pobby and Dingan. She would sometimes put out food for them. The brother, Ashmol, would get upset, but the mother told Ashmol “that they were quieter and better behaved than me and deserved the grub (page 4).”  I thought that it was cool that some of the people in the town were very nice about Pobby and Dingan. People would say hello to them, and Dingan won the third place in the Opal Princess competition.

But one time Ernie Finch let Kellyanne enter Dingan in for the Opal Princess competition because Kellyanne had a cold. I’m not kidding. And the judges voted Dingan third place. (Page 5)

The father was never mean about Pobby and Dingan, even before he started pretending that they were real. Once, when Kellyanne was outside playing with them, he said to Mum “I kind of wish that they were real friends, Mum” (page 7).

                  After the father started pretending that Pobby and Dingan were real, and took them to work with him one day, he forgot to bring them home. Pobby and Dingan were lost.  I did not like that Kellyanne got so sick when Pobby and Dingan were lost, but I did like that her brother started being kind to her. He should have not been so mean before, but it was good that he was kind to her after she got sick. Ashmol would do anything to help his sister get better. He put up signs around town asking for help to find Pobby and Dingan.

LOST! HELP!

KELLYANNE WILLIAM’S FRIENDS POBBY AND

DINGAN. DESCRIPTION: IMAGINARY, QUIET.

REWARD IF FOUND

(PAGE 33)

                  I was sad that Kellyanne said that Pobby and Dingan were dead when she saw the opal that Ashmol found.

Ashmol! You’ve found the bodies. You’ve found Pobby and Dingan! This is it! This is the stone that Dingan wears in her bellybutton!” (Page 61)

But, I was happy that Kellyanne believed that her friends had been found. It was not good that Kellyanne made Ashmol promise to use the opal to pay for the funeral for Pobby and Dingan, because the family could have used the money for some other things.