Filled with inviting photographs of six bright-eyed girls and boys at work in a sunny studio, the oversize Ballet School lets readers sit in on classes at a formal ballet school, from the first Continue reading » I have a freebie that is part of a larger resourceso that you can try it out in your classroom today! Write some instructions to teach someone how to make their Dad a nice cup of tea, ?like the girl in the story. These lessons are based on Voices in the Park by Anthony Browne, available to buy now from our Bookshop store: I really enjoyed reading this book in the latest English seminar. I like the use of 4 different voices that reflect their walk in the park, this was also shown by the different fonts for each 'voice.'

The children are most likely to say we are missing the little boy’s voice. They may also say the dog. You can ask the kids what you think those voices would say. Read The Second Voice DK's My First Word Touch and Feel oversize board book links words to pictures and, in each full-color spread, two textures. A spread for ""Around the House,"" for instance, shows a ""blanket"" and Continue reading » With this first Voices in the Park lesson plan, children will be introduced to the book, and find out that there are four different characters who each tell their version of a trip to the park from their perspective. When inquiring young minds want to know the answer to this burning question, it can be all too easy for a flustered adult to offer either too much or too little information. Royston dishes up just Continue reading » DK and Google team up to create a second reference guide utilizing the Internet with e.encyclopedia science. Created with the same format as the initial e.encyclopedia, the book invites readers to Continue reading »Part of a new line of books aimed at families with blind or sight-impaired members, this smartly conceived board book is tactile in more ways than one. As readers count to 10, the numbers and Continue reading » In these 12 well-honed stories told in first-person narrative, Johnson (Toning the Sweep) zeroes in on the idealism and resiliency that make young people a powerful force in the world. Despite their Continue reading » This picture book, a mix of storytelling and brand-name placement, makes a legend of John Batterson Stetson and takes its title from a trademark cowboy hat. Stetson, the son of a New Jersey hatmaker, Continue reading »

The father searches the classifieds looking for a job, which will allow him to provide for his family. But because economic power is so connected to being a man, the fact that he has no hope of conforming to society’s expectation of ‘Man’, this exclusion has ostensibly afforded him a different kind of freedom. He can sit in a park during the daytime and spend time with his daughter. How can you tell who is telling the story? (This is where you can notice the font change as well as how the story is being told)absolutely tabulous Each of the four Tab Board Books from DK's SnapShot imprint offers a visual table of contents: a row of illustrated tabs down the right side of each book presents the theme for Continue reading » Although the parallactic plot structure combined with surrealist illustrations are unusual in picture books, the message of this story is not unusual for the category: Don’t suppress children’s natural inclination to have fun. Don’t pass on your own class prejudices because we really need to stop perpetuating the idea that some people are more worthy than others.

With a perhaps unwitting nod to Har old and the Purple Crayon , Browne has created a book for readers younger than his usual audience. A white bear, upon meeting a grouchy gorilla, draws him a Continue reading » With spare text and haunting paintings, Browne ( Gorilla ; Willy the Wimp ) creates an intriguing fantasy about sibling rivalry transformed by experience. In spite of her fears, Rose follows her Continue reading » Anthony Browne's Gorilla reappears this fall, nearly 20 years after its original publication. The surreal story captures Hannah on the eve of her birthday and follows her escapades with a toy Continue reading » Stories come in a variety of shapes. Most picture books have a linear storyline. The structure of Voices In The Park is rare. Impressionists have a word to describe it — ‘ parallax‘. (Note, too, that some of the illustrations include Impressionist techniques, at least in comparison to Browne’s signature work — the spots of colour on the orange cover trees are a good example.)Why do you think Anthony Browne chose a park as the setting? Would a different setting affect the attitude and behaviour of the characters? Browne won the Kate Greenaway Award for Gorilla, a hit in England and America, as was his Willy the Wimp. In this sequel, the timid gorilla-youth is still the butt of the big bullies wherever he Continue reading » In their independent activities, children further apply their inference skills to answer questions in role, or complete a table detailing who thinks what about who! In the alternative suggested activity, children are challenged to create a short role-play on the premise of one of the children going to tea at the other's house, and how the characters would interact with one another. Smudge mistakes mini-misogynist Charles for a wimpy one, who gradually warms to her. I believe this is how the reader is supposed to interpret Charlie’s character arc too, but I keep thinking about the distinction between sexism and misogyny, and how Browne only subverts one of those aspects for his boy character. DESIRE In this final lesson, children recap on what they have learnt about each of the four characters in the book, and think about what the theme, or themes, of the story are.