Milo's Monster: A Big Bright Feelings Book

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If you felt jealous of another person, what would you do? How could you help somebody who was feeling jealous of you? Milo loves spending time with his best friend, Jay. But when a new girl named Suzi moves in next door, Milo starts to feel left out. The jealous feeling gets stronger and stronger--until suddenly, a GREEN-EYED MONSTER pops up beside him! Soon, the monster is twisting up all of Milo's thoughts and making him sad. It won't leave him alone!

David Almond introduces his new picture book, A Way to the Stars, a story about perseverance and finding a way to make dreams come true. Look at the front cover of the book. Who or what is Milo’s Monster? What do you think might happen in the story? Write a letter from Milo to Jay that explains how Milo felt when Jay first went to see the girl in the garden across the road.him to go with her. By this time, the Ceske kids reported to Grimmer and Tenma that Milosz was missing, saying he was abducted by the Blonde Lady. She took him to her apartment room at the topmost floor of a building nearby. Milosz was then asked by her what was he looking for when she saw him. He said he was searching for his mom, and that no one in the orphanage believed him when he said he really knew how his mother looked. Tenma and Grimmer wasted no time finding Miloš. Their efforts directed them to the red light district, but they did not find him easily. When they have reached the end of it, their hope of finding Milosz had quite diminished, until Grimmer spotted him by the edge of the bridge, looking over the rushing current of the river (because it was raining), about to jump over. experiments on children as was done Kinderheim 511, with one very big difference: instead of the children being raised in an atmosphere of cruelty and violence, they were being loved and taken care of.

How did Milo react in this story? What might have been a better way to deal with Jay’s new friendship?We learn about the friendship between Milo and Jay. Then we discover and how the friendship is challenged when Suzi moves into the house over the road. However, Milo isn’t jealous of her big house but of her friendship with Jay. Tom cleverly weaves the story round Milo’s anxiety and fear of losing his closest friend, purely because he is jealous of his new friendship with Suzi. Jealousy (or envy) is often described as a ‘green-eyed monster’. Can you find out more about the history of this phrase? At the start of the story, Milo and Jay are best friends. Do you have a best friend? How do they make you feel? What could somebody do to make new friends?

The Nottinghill Carnival takes central stage in this story about families, memories and the power of dance and festivals. Author Yaba Badoe tells... He grew up in a remote and beautiful part of South Shropshire. On reflection this seemed rather more remote than beautiful, owing to the fact that he lived in a small caravan without electricity, mains water or any sensible form of heating. He thinks that he’s probably one of the few people in his peer group to have learnt to read by gas lamp. In Milo's Monster, the author explores jealousy and what happens when Milo feels that his best friend, Jay, is being taken away by new girl, Suzi. Milo gets angrier as he feels increasingly left out of their games until eventually, a green-eyed monster appears, making Milo feel even more angry and jealous to the point where he stops playing with his old friends. Eventually, Milo realises that his actions are making them as sad as he feels and he finds a way to say sorry, and the children become friends once more.Orphans' letters to the detectives saying, "Mr. Officers, Mr. Grimmer is innocent" and "Mr. Detectives, it's the blonde lady who's the murderer" Until one day, Suzi met Milo and told him that Jay was missing him. With all his might, Milo gets rid of the Green-Eyed Monster and life becomes exciting again! The typical firsts of school are here: riding the bus, making friends, sliding on the playground slide, counting, sorting shapes, laughing at lunch, painting, singing, reading, running, jumping rope, and going on a field trip. While the days are given ordinal numbers, the song skips the cardinal numbers in the verses, and the rhythm is sometimes off: “On the second day of kindergarten / I thought it was so cool / making lots of friends / and riding the bus to my school!” The narrator is a white brunette who wears either a tunic or a dress each day, making her pretty easy to differentiate from her classmates, a nice mix in terms of race; two students even sport glasses. The children in the ink, paint, and collage digital spreads show a variety of emotions, but most are happy to be at school, and the surroundings will be familiar to those who have made an orientation visit to their own schools. The title of this story uses alliteration. Can you think of (or make up) other book titles that also include alliteration?