Midnight Pals: Pyjamafication (Patreon)

John Boyne: hey it's me, John BoyneBoyne: author of 'the boy in the striped pyjamas'Boyne: [whispers] a fableBoyne: and have i got an offerBoyne: for you!!!

Boyne: so i wrote the boy in the striped pyjamasBoyne: [whispers] a fableBoyne: to educate people about the holocaust's littlest victimsBoyne: the sad children of concentration camp commandants

Boyne: and i wrote a sequel 'all the broken places'Boyne to educate people about the holocaust's other littlest victimsBoyne: more sad children of concentration camp commandants

Boyne: butBoyne: there are so many atrocities out thereBoyne: how can i help children understand them all in the same non-threatening, family-friendly way?Boyne: well, my new series of genocide education easy readers answers exactly that question…

Boyne: teachers are already so excited that they've dubbed the process 'pyjamification'Boyne: and what's pyjamafication, you ask?Boyne:Boyne: um we don't need to get into the details about that

Boyne: you can start with 'the boy in the striped osnaburg shirt'Boyne: it's about the wonderfully innocent child of a plantation overseerBoyne: who befriends a boy toiling in the cotton fieldsBoyne: but our child narrator is so innocent he doesn't even know what slavery is

Boyne: see, he doesn't see colorBoyne: he doesn't care if you're black, white, green or purpleBoyne: he just seesBoyne: human beingsBoyne: damn, from the mouths of babes am i right?

Boyne: or pick up 'the boy in the striped war bonnet'Boyne: its about the wonderfully innocent child of a cowboyBoyne: who one day befriends a boy on a reservationBoyne: but our child narrator is so innocent he doesn't even know what small pox is

Boyne: or pick up 'the boy in the striped keffiyeh'Boyne: it's about the wonderfully innocent child of a 22 year old IDF general/tik tok influencer/bulldozer operator

Boyne: who one day befriends a boy in an open air concentration campBoyne: but our child narrator is so innocent he doesn't even know what apartheid is

Boyne: one day the boy in the striped keffiyeh is mysteriously killed by mysterious carpet bombing of unknown originBoyne: who can say what caused it?Boyne: i guess we'll never know

Boyne: but whether we're talking about auschwitz or gaza or rwandaBoyne: there's one thing we can learn from the fabulous stories of these strange and exotic fictional locales!Boyne: and that'sBoyne: 'sometimes bad things happen and it's just no one's fault'