"Sentience? I'm just a throwaway toy, an inanimate object. How can I have thought and emotion? Opinion and experience? I'd shrug my shoulders if I could. The world is brimful of mystery." All the kids adore Doggem, the class cuddly toy.
They each get to take him home. Hug him and love him and show him their world outside of school.
All they have to do in return is write his diary.
It's George Gould's turn and he's going to introduce...