Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers. This book has been in our house for one evening and it’s already been the subject of numerous requests to “read that again, please” which is pretty much the highest praise a children’s book can get. With its made-up words and rhyming text, this will remind readers of Dr. Seuss. The Smeds and the Smoos join together when their children run off to elope. Where could the couple be? Can these two groups set aside their differences to find the two? Make up a new story about two people, animals or aliens who want to be friends but are not allowed. A registered company (No.01747753) limited by guarantee and registered charity (No.287589) and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance.

The Smeds And The Smoos - Teaching Ideas The Smeds And The Smoos - Teaching Ideas

I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs. Write a diary entry for Janet or Bill from a time when they crept off to play in the Wurpular Wood together. One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it’s a tremendous way to improve their reading. Music, laughs and interplanetary adventures for everyone aged 3 and up, from Tall Stories – the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom live on stage. The Smeds and the Smoos visit other planets to find Janet and Bill. Can you imagine a new planet that they might explore?The newest rhyming picture book from the stellar pairing of Donaldson and Scheffler provides all their usual invention, quirkiness and read-aloud expertise in a story about tolerance and accepting difference.

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There are lots of made-up words in this book. Can you make a glossary to explain what they all mean? Could you make up some of your own words and write definitions? Read the title of the book first. What do you think it is about? What is a ‘Smed’? What is a ‘Smoo’? Where do they live? What might happen in the story? Julia Donaldson’s uses phonetically decodable alien words, such as ‘loobular lake’ and ‘glompoms’. This means that children are able to watch the decoding of alien words, modelled by a reader, or are able to practise decoding them themselves within a fun and memorable story, giving their work at school on alien words meaning and excitement. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him). The Smeds and the Smoos follows two young aliens. A Smed, named Janet and a Smoo named Bill. The Smeds and the Smoos are rival. Janet and Bills’ families tell them stories to warn them of the others. But Janet and Bill fall in love.This books follows the story of a smed and a smoo who are both warned by their families to avoid the other. One is red and the other is blue. Despite their families views the smed and the smoo run away together and get married. Whilst Janet and Bill have ran away, their families look for them and in the process begin to form positive relationships.

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Design your own alien and create a character profile for it. Where does it live? Does it have any special abilities? Five children from different countries show us who they love and how to say 'I love you' in their own languages. A stylish interactive board book that's fun for pre-schoolers and older children. Someone gifted this to my daughter, and I read it even before she got around to it. A delightful little story set on a faraway planet which is peopled by two very different groups: the Smeds and the Smoos, who are at daggers drawn.Music, laughs and interplanetary adventures for everyone aged 3 and up, from Tall Stories – the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom live on stage. Highly recommend this book for young children it subtly covers issues on diversity, inclusion, not judging someone by the colour of there skin and that red and blue aliens make purple babies and they are loved. I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books.

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While this is a fairly bland treatment compared to Deborah Lee Rose and Carey Armstrong-Ellis’ The Twelve Days of Kindergarten (2003), it basically gets the job done. The alien/nonsense words (lobular and humplety) and rhymes within the book lend themselves to phonics; children can practice decoding, blending and identifying nonsense words within the text. Whilst this wasn't the most original story, there twist of two alien races putting their differences aside due to young love is still a great way to explore acceptance and not to discriminate to even the youngest of readers. A magical blend of catchy songs, adept storytelling and audience participation that youngsters lap up.” East Midlands TheatreThe story uses phonetically decodable words and rhymes throughout which would give children the opportunity to read the story for themselves and recognise word patterns. I thought this picture book was cute and very colourful. I already read some of Julia Donaldson's books and love the fun illustrations by Axel Scheffler. The Smeds and The Smoos (2019) from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler - tells us the age old story of the Montagues and the Capulets, of the Sharks and the Jets of differences, of peace, love, tolerance and understanding - conceived, retold, reimagined, written and illustrated particularly brilliantly by Donaldson and Scheffler for younger readers.