Mrs Noah's Pockets

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New parents, especially, will delight in the tenderness that permeates Jeffers’ first foray into non-fiction; the gentle text, both humorous and admonitory (“You have a body. Finally, Otherworld by Jason Segel and Kirsten Miller (Rock the Boat) is an engaging near-future dystopia, playing with ideas of ethics, artificial sentience and virtual reality in a manner reminiscent of Ernest Cline’s Ready Player One. Marrying Jackie Morris’s words with James Mayhew’s richly textured illustrations, this book is fabulous in all particulars, from its duped patriarch believing that his wife is sewing curtains rather than secret pockets for centaurs, to its endpapers, full of wild waters and gambolling fantastic beasts. Luckily her famous pockets contain seeds and she has some help from the children - and the creatures.

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An errant boy finds himself doomed to serve a disgusting Christmas dinner to the unsavoury faculty of Soul’s College – and to hear the gruesome stories accompanying each course. An 8 page illustrated set of Teachers’ Notes to encourage close observation and reflection through a range of stimulating creative, imaginative andpractical activities.Mysterious and intriguing, what she is doing is not revealed until the ark finally finds land after the great rains and we see, in a series of beautiful illustrations, the fantastical creatures she has saved. Each of her tears was an almond of pure gold”) interleaved with Jeffrey Alan Love’s iron-dark, silhouetted images. The illustrations of the rain with vertical lines changing in intensity and the swirling clouds and tempestuous seas are very effective.

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In the original story Mr Noah is the main character making the decisions, sharing this book might lead to discussions about the role of women and girls in history and traditional stories.If there is a very rainy day, collect rainwater in a jam jar or measuring jug, and see how many centimetres of rain has fallen. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah is busy sewing, clue in the title, and visiting parts of the woods that are her special domain. Andy Mulligan’s Dog (Pushkin), though less overtly fantastical, is another animal story with a difference. At its heart is the pain of rejection, felt both by unhappy boy Tom and by Spider, the runty reject puppy with the projecting tooth to whom Tom gives his heart after his parents’ separation.

Mrs Noah’s Pockets | James Mayhew

Masquerading as the secret papers of a forgotten Elizabethan poet, this compendium tracks folkloric monsters across the globe, its maps enriched with coded ciphers and supercilious notes from the cataloguing librarian. awareness of purpose and audience and selection of appropriate form, style, register and medium of communication. Poignant, funny, savage and ultimately uplifting, this is Mulligan at the top of his challenging form. Intriguingly illustrated, it imparts an exciting sense of the strange-beasts cultures held in common in countries around the world, despite their geographical distance.In The Hippo at the End of the Hall (David Fickling), Helen Cooper, the Kate Greenaway award-winning author of picture books such as Pumpkin Soup, has written a glorious first work of full-length fiction, complete with charismatic illustrations. Age 5-7 years When Mr Noah decides to be quite selective about the animals he allows on his ark, Mrs Noah takes matters into her own hands.

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The language is beautiful, opening with the extremely simple sentence “it rained” and continuing with rich evocative sentences, until “then one morning everyone awoke to silence”. Year 4KM delved into the Mrs Noah’s stories to link with our time away from school and talk about our feelings. Noah’s biblical namesake appears in Mrs Noah’s Pockets (Otter-Barry), starring a subversive, smiling seamstress who turns conservationist when her husband starts striking “troublesome creatures” such as unicorns from his list of the elect of the ark’s passengers. We then presented our work to some of our friends and discussed what we had enjoyed about the project. More sophisticated is The Atlas of Monsters by Stuart Hill and Sandra Lawrence (Big Picture), a pleasingly different addition to the well-worn trend for themed children’s atlases.

This gleefully grisly departure from Montgomery’s gentler previous style should appeal to Goosebumps fans. Work of the highest standard is always completed on time and I would happily recommend Eva to anyone looking for top quality teachers' notes to accompany their texts. Kevin Crossley-Holland’s Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki (Walker Studio) will delight both the newcomer and the Norse aficionado, instantly immersing its reader in the tragedy and treachery synonymous with the Scandinavian pantheon. We thought about what would happen if the animals escaped on the ark and learned all about vibration, by using different instruments and experimenting with elastic bands and rulers. Read the story aloud to your child pausing to talk about what is happening in the story and the illustrations.