Dog longs to visit the seaside. But the ocean is MILES away. “Impossible!” he sighs.
Then a lost crab appears and needs help to get home. Will Dog take this chance to make his dream come true?
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This is the story of a bear who wants to go sledging in the snow. He is at the bottom of the hill and doesn’t know how he is going to get to the top so he can start sledging. His friends come to help and it involves a lot of pushing and pulling.
Eventually, he understands the need to help himself to get to the top so all of his friends can enjoy sledging back down. The book has very bright and engaging illustrations that would be brilliant for younger children.
The use of the words push and pull throughout provides the opportunity to secure the children’s understanding of the meaning of those words. After you finish reading the story, there are several push and pull activity suggestions for you to do with children to help them cement their understanding of the words. This would be a brilliant real-life scenario to base a science experiment on for younger children around the topic of forces specifically push and pull.
Dog longs to visit the seaside. But the ocean is MILES away. “Impossible!” he sighs.
Then a lost crab appears and needs help to get home. Will Dog take this chance to make his dream come true?
This is a book to choose when introducing the importance of class rules, demonstrating how shared environments work best if everyone sticks to the agreed rules and works together to take responsibility for making somewhere a happy place to live, work and play.
Sunnyville is the perfect place to live. The animals live in peace and harmony and everyone is friendly to one another. Until one day, Rhino tosses a sweet wrapper over his shoulder. It’s only one, he thinks – until everyone is doing the same. This one action begins a domino effect which results in Sunnyville being a lot less than perfect with everyone being grumpy and doing as they please. Then little mouse has an idea, and ‘only one’ small act starts a whole wave of small acts and turns Sunnyville around.With appealing animal characters to draw in the reader, this is a wonderful story about being good community members and caring for the world around us. The story provides a great example of how ‘only one’ small act can start a whole chain of events.
The bright illustrations are eye catching and full of detail, with plenty of things to talk about for the start of a new year, including personal responsibility, keeping the classroom tidy, treating equipment with respect and working together to improve things.
Meet the Mini Monsters, four adorable characters who are learning valuable lessons about friendship and how to get along, in a pre-school setting. In this story, Sparkle is putting on a magic show with Arthur, but when Scout wants to join in, Sparkle is not happy. After some heartache, Sparkle soon learns that playing together is much more fun. Hooray!
Author Caryl says: “I am in love with the design of this book, the colour scheme, backgrounds and illustrative details are really, really clever and Tony Neal has done a great job of capturing the personalities of these loveable characters.”
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Would you recommend the book for use in primary schools?
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