The Way Back Home: Oliver Jeffers

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Discover what it means to continue forward in life, despite all the challenges we face, to find the way back home. The Way Back Home is a delightfully illustrated story about friendship, working together and having lots in common despite being different.

I've been reading Courtney Peppernell for years (this is my 8th book) but her latest collection is sadly not my favourite. You will find many creative activities based on each book to make reading even more enjoyable and interactive. Kat finds a new mystery about her father, while Del reveals an old secret about him that's troubled her. Set in the Southern area of the United States of America, this is a slower movie with a lot of wisdom in it. I’m unsure if it was the fact that I read it myself, instead of hearing how she intended it to be read, or if this collection was wildly different, but I didn’t enjoy it near as much, unfortunately.During the lockdown, Oliver Jeffers has been reading a story every week day on Instagram and you can find the videos here. The mostly prose format was also tiring, because I prefer classic poetry compared to this writing style. There were a few stories that reminded me of fables and parables, except that they completely missed the mark for me too. Can the boy find his way back home safely and will he ever make it back up to the moon to rescue his friend? So we ran around hunting for the rabid tundra kodiak for 30 minutes til one of the group realized the restless aged coldain was on track.

The poetry was easy to read, like you don't have to pick this up and contemplate every poem for two minutes to understand it. Divided into sections that draw on themes of courage, resilience, purpose, and hope, the collection has Peppernell once again walking us through a redemptive journey of the heart, mind, and soul. This whole class reading resource focuses on adding in capital letters and full stops to the sentences.She hopes to continue exploring expression and the art of healing through stories, novels, and poetry for years to come. Coincidentally, engine trouble has stranded a young Martian on the other side of the moon, and he’s just as frightened and alone. As with any poetry book some parts are better than others however maybe it’s more of some parts are more relatable than others. You find a set of small footprints that stop here where a very large set of footprints encounter them.

I listened to some of the author’s other collections earlier this month, so I was excited to see this one. A big, big thank you to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing me with an ARC in exchange for an honest review! No matter how many times you walk the same road, at the very beginning to the very end, you always become someone new.However, I will still be checking out Courtney's new releases, as well as some backlist titles I missed. She pauses and takes a deep breath, `I suppose that even if you find no sign that anything bad happened to her I won't know that she is safe. A really lovely resource ready to use if you have Active Inspire for the flip charts - if not the PDFs are useful for the children's activities. Thanks to the Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing me with eARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

The Way Back Home is a collection of poems relating to the COVID-19 pandemic and emphasizes themes of loss, grace, friendship, and more. Make a simple plane from two pieces of card slotted together and a spaceship, perhaps from a plastic tub. Fortunately there's friendship to be found, and what better way of finding your way back home, than by making a friend? I found many a beautiful passage to underline and much hope delivered after the very bleak first portion. Age 5-7 An adventurous boy finds a small aeroplane in a cupboard and immediately flies it, higher and higher until he runs out of petrol and is stranded; on the moon!If you would like another drawing project, you can see how to draw the boy's friend, the Penguin, herebut this time, the instructions have been written by Oliver Jeffers himself.