The Smeds and the Smoos

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Highly recommend this book for young children it subtly covers issues on diversity, inclusion, not judging someone by the colour of there skin and that red and blue aliens make purple babies and they are loved.

The Smeds and the Smoos | BookTrust

Toivoin tältä Julia Donaldsonin Romeon ja Julian uudelleenkerronnalta hieman enemmän kuin mitä todellisuudessa sain. Erilaisuuden vieroksunta ja toisen suvun mustamaalaaminen ja totaalinen kanssakäynnin kieltäminen toki on ominaista myös alkuperäiselle tarinalle, mutta lastenkirjassa olisin toivonut hieman miedompia sanakäänteitä toisen puolen mustamaalauksessa. Five children from different countries show us who they love and how to say 'I love you' in their own languages. A stylish interactive board book that's fun for pre-schoolers and older children. The newest rhyming picture book from the stellar pairing of Donaldson and Scheffler provides all their usual invention, quirkiness and read-aloud expertise in a story about tolerance and accepting difference. Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers.

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Write a diary entry for Janet or Bill from a time when they crept off to play in the Wurpular Wood together.

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Make a list of all the rhyming words in the book. Can you think of other words that rhyme with those?

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Write a sequel to this book? What might happen to the Smeds and the Smoos (and their new baby) next? Someone gifted this to my daughter, and I read it even before she got around to it. A delightful little story set on a faraway planet which is peopled by two very different groups: the Smeds and the Smoos, who are at daggers drawn. Design your own alien and create a character profile for it. Where does it live? Does it have any special abilities?

The Smeds and the Smoos by Julia Donaldson | Goodreads

Music, laughs and interplanetary adventures for everyone aged 3 and up, from Tall Stories – the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom live on stage. This books follows the story of a smed and a smoo who are both warned by their families to avoid the other. One is red and the other is blue. Despite their families views the smed and the smoo run away together and get married. Whilst Janet and Bill have ran away, their families look for them and in the process begin to form positive relationships. Make up a new story about two people, animals or aliens who want to be friends but are not allowed. While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of Kindergarten (2003), it basically gets the job done.A magical blend of catchy songs, adept storytelling and audience participation that youngsters lap up.” East Midlands Theatre Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta. Two young aliens from warring families fall in love and run away, leading their relatives on a chase across outer space. Animated adaptation of the children's book by Julia Donaldson. More I feel conflicted about The Smeds and the Smoos. A Smed and a Smoo fall in love despite multiple warnings from their grandparents about why they should be avoiding each other, but unlike Romeo and Juliet this love story has a happy ending. I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books.