Mrs Noah's Pockets

Product Information

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. Andy Mulligan’s Dog (Pushkin), though less overtly fantastical, is another animal story with a difference. 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. awareness of purpose and audience and selection of appropriate form, style, register and medium of communication.

Mrs Noah’s pockets | IBBY

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. Registered Office: 119 Victoria Road, London N22 7XG | The IBBY UK Section is a Company Limited by Guarantee: Company number 7892957; Registered Charity number 1145999.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. 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. 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. The Lost Words is a collaboration between myself and Robert MacFarlane, author of Landmarks and The Wild Places.

Mrs Noah’s Pockets | James Mayhew

Year 4KM delved into the Mrs Noah’s stories to link with our time away from school and talk about our feelings. Complex characterisation, fast-paced action and a corkscrewing plot combine in this satisfying, thought-provoking read. 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. Crossley-Holland’s well forged words, as right-feeling in the mind as a sword’s hilt in the hand, are the perfect medium for these bloody, compelling tales, with their rich poetry (“Freyja wept. Intriguingly illustrated, it imparts an exciting sense of the strange-beasts cultures held in common in countries around the world, despite their geographical distance.The children based their work around mythical creatures, like the ones Mrs Noah placed in her pockets. 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. 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. 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.

Teaching Notes | Eva John Teaching Notes | Eva John

The illustrations of the rain with vertical lines changing in intensity and the swirling clouds and tempestuous seas are very effective. Look after it, as most bits don’t grow back”) and luminous images add up to quietly glowing treasure. 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”. 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. Poignant, funny, savage and ultimately uplifting, this is Mulligan at the top of his challenging form.

After his beloved Kat, “locked into” her body by an accident, is offered a virtual reality beta to give her a form of life, Simon enters Otherworld, intent on rescue.

Literacy Shed Plus - Teaching Resources Made Easy Literacy Shed Plus - Teaching Resources Made Easy

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. Each of her tears was an almond of pure gold”) interleaved with Jeffrey Alan Love’s iron-dark, silhouetted images. Then before the ark sets sail, she goes for a walk in the woods collecting the mythical animals her husband plans to leave behind. 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. Using musical instruments, we completed some science showing how sounds travel, while making sounds that would be found in the garden.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. We then read ‘Mrs Noah’s Garden’ which was focusing on renewal and starting afresh, just like we were doing in school. 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. For example, reading Mr Noah’s thoughts and words or you could take turns reading the lines on the opening pages when the rain comes and when Mrs Noah watches Mr Noah make plans. 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.