Mrs Noah's Pockets

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LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 KATE GREENAWAY PRIZE: “Judges were impressed by the use of vibrant jewel colours and rich texture in this sensual, visually innovative twist on a well-known biblical tale, incorporating a range of techniques and an expert use of scale to evoke the flow and sweep of flood tide.” Mayhew uses paper collage and linocut illustrations to achieve wonderful colours and depth. 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. The illustrations of the rain with vertical lines changing in intensity and the swirling clouds and tempestuous seas are very effective. This contrasts brilliantly with the calm still bright blue after the storm. The mythical creatures are each wonderful collages. Norse Myths: Tales of Odin, Thor and Loki by Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jeffrey Alan Love The White Fox, publishing with Barrington Stoke in Autumn 2016 is a story of alienation, threaded through with wild magic and belonging. Mrs Noah saved several mythical animals, including unicorns, dragons and griffins. Make a zig zag book for your child to draw illustrations of them. You could write some information together too ( see links below). Make up a story together

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Find out about different types of weather, using the internet and information books. Talk about the difference between a shower and torrential rain that causes floods. Talk about climate change Look together at the rainy day pictures in the book and make your own. You could try with crayon or paint or draw lines, dashes and dots with a candle on paper and then paint with well diluted blue paint or ink. Be a weather spotter

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. 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. Will he make it through the night alive? This gleefully grisly departure from Montgomery’s gentler previous style should appeal to Goosebumps fans. 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. We then presented our work to some of our friends and discussed what we had enjoyed about the project. We then read ‘Mrs Noah’s Garden’ which was focusing on renewal and starting afresh, just like we were doing in school.

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A memoir for childen aged 12 and over, Alex Bertie’s Trans Mission: My Quest to a Beard (Wren & Rook) is a demystifying wander through the author’s life, from a transformative haircut to the various milestones – coming out to family, getting a doctor’s letter, starting testosterone – that mark his progress. 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. Find out more Listen to a version of the original Noah’s Ark story here Find out more about weather and climate change 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. 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. 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.”Using musical instruments, we completed some science showing how sounds travel, while making sounds that would be found in the garden. In art, Yr4 focused on using different media to design and create their own garden. They used sharpies to design their own pebble to decorate our own school garden. Comprehensive teachers’ notes designed to develop critical thinking skills and a more sophisticated, considered response to texts and illustrations. 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. There is no explanation of which animals fall into this category. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah is busy sewing, clue in the title, and visiting parts of the woods that are her special domain. 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. 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. 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. Both a compelling thriller and a warm, lively portrait of unusual family life, Joelson’s first book marks her out as a writer to watch.