Mrs Noah's Pockets

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Read the story aloud to your child pausing to talk about what is happening in the story and the illustrations. Then before the ark sets sail, she goes for a walk in the woods collecting the mythical animals her husband plans to leave behind. Look after it, as most bits don’t grow back”) and luminous images add up to quietly glowing treasure. The children based their work around mythical creatures, like the ones Mrs Noah placed in her pockets.

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This gleefully grisly departure from Montgomery’s gentler previous style should appeal to Goosebumps fans. In her enthralling debut, I Have No Secrets (Electric Monkey), Penny Joelson undertakes a difficult task, narrating from the perspective of a character without speech: 14-year-old Jemma, who has cerebral palsy.An 8 page illustrated set of Teachers’ Notes to encourage close observation and reflection through a range of stimulating creative, imaginative andpractical activities. Many a gorgeous gift awaits picture book fans this Christmas, including Oliver Jeffers’ Here We Are (HarperCollins), a heartfelt introduction of child to planet in ethereal shades of blue and violet, and a departure from his familiar naive style. In English, the children created their own hybrid ‘mythical creatures’ and then wrote non-chronological reports to give details about what they look like, their diets and their habitats. We then presented our work to some of our friends and discussed what we had enjoyed about the project.

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awareness of purpose and audience and selection of appropriate form, style, register and medium of communication. 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. The Lost Words is a collaboration between myself and Robert MacFarlane, author of Landmarks and The Wild Places.We then read ‘Mrs Noah’s Garden’ which was focusing on renewal and starting afresh, just like we were doing in school. 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. Each of her tears was an almond of pure gold”) interleaved with Jeffrey Alan Love’s iron-dark, silhouetted images. 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. Comprehensive teachers’ notes designed to develop critical thinking skills and a more sophisticated, considered response to texts and illustrations.

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Those with strong stomachs, and a taste for still more sinister tales, should plunge with relish into Christmas Dinner of Souls (Faber), a splendidly rancid read from Ross Montgomery, with bug-eyed pictures from David Litchfield. We completed lots of wonderful activities including designing and decorating our own pebbles for our school garden, making garden collages in the style of James Mayhew and weaving our own ‘pockets’– explaining what we would choose to take onto the ark and why. 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. Mr Noah is busy building the ark and sorting out the pairs of animals to join him, anxious at the same time to ensure that the ‘troublesome creatures’ are not included. Our work is being put proudly up on display and we have thoroughly enjoyed reading our new-loved books!Relishing her apparent helplessness, her carer’s boyfriend confides to her that he has committed a murder – but when a technological advance offers Jemma the chance of a voice, she becomes a danger to him. 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”. Before you start sharing the story you might want to talk about the story of Noah’s Ark (see link below with a retelling). Talk about the decisions the characters made in the story – Mr Noah deciding to get rid of ‘troublesome’ creatures and Mrs Noah deciding to save them. The use of blue, the darkening of the colours during the rains, the wonderful lightness as the sun reappears and the rain stops, is very effective.

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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. Read more books by James Mayhew James has written and illustrated Koshka’s Tales (stories from Russia) and the Katie series including Katie and the Dinosaurs and Katie and the Starry Night. 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.At a time when trans identity can sometimes become a contentious issue, this engaging, humorous account, conveying deep feeling without straying into hysteria, is invaluable for anyone who is or who knows a transgender person. Graffeg have had the pleasure of working with Eva on a number of projects over the past few years, furnishing us with an added educational resource for many of our books. Luckily her famous pockets contain seeds and she has some help from the children - and the creatures.