Bears in the Night (Beginner Series)

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This is almost but not quite a wordless picture book. Because there are so few words — and even fewer distinct words — the illustrations carry the vast majority of the story. Look again at Rama and Sita on the IWB. Remind children of the ending. People lit divas in their homes to celebrate the return of Rama & Sita. Now they light divas to remember.

When illustrating night scenes, many illustrators for children do this by using blue hues rather than darkening the tone. This serves well to create a nightscape which gives the illusion of darkness but without the element of scary — blue hues in bright hues are the ‘night light of picturebook world’. The mother in this story is a distant figure who appears at the beginning of the story and provokes Phoebe to become independent rather than as a comforting figure who appears at the end. Again, the scenery is a nightscape, but set entirely inside a house. Notice how a digital artist portrays night-time and intratext, and how the advent of computers has changed how we illustrate. Like Bears In The Night, Phoebe and the Night Creatures is a story that builds on itself, but in a different way. The climax comes later in the story, so the denouement is shorter. Scary things in picturebooks tend to fall into two categories:Read Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali up to the end of Day 2. Have any of the children celebrated Diwali? Or do they know others who have.

Phoebe and the Night Creatures is a much more recent book (also an Australian band) published by Scholastic, and stars a single girl protagonist who is scared to get out of bed to visit the toilet. Look again at Let’s Celebrate 5 Days of Diwali and look at Day 3. The little clay pots to hold the candles are called divas. Talk about how we use candles in our homes/lives. Share the story Rama and Sita on the IWB. Remind children that these names were in ‘ Let’s Celebrate….’ That we read last week.

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Use Remember, remember and say this together. Continue to learn the two rhymes from last week: Penny for the Guy and Fireworks. But, as with any great adventure, the first victory is only the beginning of new, even greater challenges! Ahead of us is work on version 0.2.1. and it's anything, but an easy walk! But that doesn't scare us. The illustrator could have created a less engaging picture (though easier to illustrate) by drawing a series of ‘snapshots’. Instead, we see a birds-eye landscape view with compressed perspective. STORY SPECS

It’s interesting how often mothers perform the comforting role in picturebooks. This story was published in 1971. We are starting to see a few more ‘fathers as comforting figures’ in picturebooks, but they are still few and far between. Look again at Bears in the Night. Say that many people are afraid of the dark. Even grown-ups often feel more scared if walking in the dark, or going somewhere strange in the dark. That’s why we have festivals in winter (when it’s dark) to celebrate light – with candles/fireworks When you read the book did you notice the white space? Good white space goes completely unnoticed unless you’re looking for it. White breaks up the blue of the night time, and has several other roles here: We were so excited to show you the completed prologue that we spent a whole month witching our way through it, ignoring trivial things like sleep and weekends! The cover of this book identifies it as being a Beginner Book for Beginning Beginners, which sort of puts me way, way, way out of its category. This book is pretty much designed for people who are learning to read (though surprisingly, there are probably more people my age who are at this level, and have spoken English most of their lives, than the government is willing to admit).More characters, more locations, more animations, more stories, more h-content, and more magic are coming your way!