Mrs Noah's Pockets

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Read the story aloud to your child pausing to talk about what is happening in the story and the illustrations. They created their own and wrote a non-chronological report to inform others of their magical creation.

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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. Read more books by James Mayhew James has written and illustrated Koshka’s Tales (stories from Russia) and the Katie series including Katie and the Dinosaurs and Katie and the Starry Night. We began by reading ‘Mrs Noah’s Pockets’ and writing about the special items we would take in our own pockets if we had to leave in a rush.

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. 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. Andy Mulligan’s Dog (Pushkin), though less overtly fantastical, is another animal story with a difference. Using musical instruments, we completed some science showing how sounds travel, while making sounds that would be found in the garden. Masquerading as the secret papers of a forgotten Elizabethan poet, this compendium tracks folkloric monsters across the globe, its maps enriched with coded ciphers and supercilious notes from the cataloguing librarian.

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Look after it, as most bits don’t grow back”) and luminous images add up to quietly glowing treasure. Luckily her famous pockets contain seeds and she has some help from the children - and the creatures.The Lost Words is a collaboration between myself and Robert MacFarlane, author of Landmarks and The Wild Places. Meanwhile, Mrs Noah is busy sewing, clue in the title, and visiting parts of the woods that are her special domain.