Bash Street Kids' Teacher Says: Silly Me Minnie prints a brief bit of research

a brief bit of research revealed to me that Valentine's Day has been associated with lovers for longer than I’d thought: apparently the first surviving romantic reference to St Valentine's Day was made by Geoffrey Chaucer in the late 14th century

with Dennis's red-and-white sriped jersey and explosion of black hair

which is in a mug shaped to his likeness

which started in 1919

Although the characters have been around for nearly 100 years

Bash Street Kids' Teacher Says: Silly Me Minnie prints a brief bit of researchHandmade screen print on cotton paper. Signed and numbered out of 200 in pencil by the printer, John Patrick Reynolds. Standard size: 26cm x 19cm Medium size: 48cm x 38cm Large size: 76cm x 56cm The great thing about the Bash Street Kids is that theres somebody for pretty much everybody to relate to: all humanity is there from tall skinny ones to shorter fatter ones. And I love that many of their names are unabashedly direct: theres Fatty, Spotty and