AniMalcolm

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Malcolm’s family joke about getting 700 cats, 800 dogs and five giraffes. Calculate how many legs and tails this many animals would have. From David Baddiel, the brightest new star of children’s books and winner of the LOLLIES award, comes a laugh-out-loud adventure for every child who ever wondered what it might be like to be a bit of an animal... Like a lot of parents I am always on the look out for new books that will ignite a love of reading in my children. My son used to be an avid reader and we have read most of the Road Dahl books together as well as some other great series’, such as Captain Underpants by Dav Pilkey. However, since the number of books he has to read for school has increased he has stopped wanting to read purely for fun. Mother, father, grandfather, big sister and little brother dance around the bed singing Happy Birthday. Malcolm anticipates the present of his dreams, “a FZY Apache 321, hi-def screen, 4.0 GHz processor speed laptop with quad speakers and Nahimic virtual surround sound”. What he gets is a chinchilla. Malcolm isn’t happy (“I don’t love him”). Traumatised by “the monkey moment” at the zoo when he was six (it involved poo), he just doesn’t get his family’s mad love for animals (as he sings in a number rhyming “very thorough” with “David Attenborough”). A school trip to Orwell Farm, an encounter with a Himalayan goat called K-Pax and... Enough! No spoilers! Not everyone has read the award-winning 2017 David Baddiel novel on which this cheery new musical (score by David Perkins) is based.

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Chapter five ends with a cliffhanger because Malcolm doesn’t know where his school trip will take him. Can you find cliffhangers in other stories? Can you use these as ideas for cliffhangers in your own stories?Write a persuasive letter to your family to ask them to get you a pet… or to your teacher asking for a class pet. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments Look at the use of speech within the text. Could you rewrite the story as a play? Could you perform the play to others? Could you conduct a survey to find out the most popular pet / animal of the children in your class? Use this information to generate a report and a variety of charts / graphs.

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Year Six go on a school trip to a farm. Can you find any farms in your local area? What do they produce? The book is also heavily illustrated and I just adored each and every illustration. They made the book really pop and made some of the scenes even more hilarious. Say hello to Malcolm, he is our MC, and he doesn't like animals. He has his reasons, and I was nodding along, I could totally understand he may not be all that happy with animals. I understood his point that animals seemingly do nothing all day, just laze around, or do some weird animal thing. Of course, I am an animal fan myself, but I could still understand Malcolm's reasoning. Hannah and the gorilla see the primates at the zoo. Can you find out about primates? What different types of primate are there? How are they similar / different?K-Pax says ‘To understand animals, you have to live as an animal!’. Write a story about what you would do if you were turned into an animal. This time no Parent Agencies, no Controllers that will control people/animals, oh no, this time we are experiencing what it is like to be an animal, and not just one, but quite a few of them. Over the next days, Malcolm changes. He learns a lot about animals. More, in many ways, than he would like. He learns what it’s really like to be an animal. A whole series of animals, in fact...