Finally, this novel would work as an example material to scaffold pupils work: the dual narrative nature of the book would be highly useful to explore with a class.

I know I used to imagine my toys came to life, that my Duplo characters moved around at night, wished I could talk to the Tooth Fairy - the size difference, the power difference fascinated me. I would like to compliment the author, I truly hope he reads this because that's the best story I've read to my son since we read the Roald Dahl collection and we've gone through alot of rubbish (cough D. Take The Carpet People by Terry Pratchett, Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, and Gregor the Overlander by Suzann Collins, mix them together, and add a surprising twist. Good enough that almost every night that I read this to my son I gave him extra chapters - more for me than for him - as I needed to know what was going to happen next. It's also a strange statement to make in that Max has spent much of this book lipreading incredibly tiny people with no sound input.Less than a thimbleful of liquid lay inside, but the colors shifted and clouded in a pattern of millions. Once the magic comes into play, the deafness remains realistic, but the hearing aids take on magical qualities through the ministrations of Mr.

Seeing how the ‘floor people’ inhabit the room and survive in it is highly creative, from the models and bins being used as homes and flies being used as war machines. Fleas, friendship and a gaggle of five-year olds pumped up on birthday candy make this even funnier. Walliams) I was beginning to loose hope and commented to my wife that all the old kids books were the best and I can't find any exciting, engaging well written story's, so thanks I enjoyed watching my son jump up out of bed as he figured out parts of the plot for him self 😊 he'd still be talking about it the next day guessing what was going to happen next. Then Max makes a miraculous discovery – a tiny civilisation in the pile of sand on the caretaker’s floor. While it's certainly possible for modern digital hearing aids to pick up signals via FM loops or Bluetooth, these are already built-in functions.The reds, greens and blues as a metaphor for societal divisions is a simple metaphor, but well executed. Max struggles to fit with his peers and discovers that even the most popular students have personal problems. Max has few friends and rarely interacts with his peers at all, because it is too difficult to keep up with the speechreading.