Grumpycorn

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And I also get help from people at Scholastic - Louisa Danquah, Bethan Dewey, Harriet Dunlea and others - who help spread the word about the book, so people know it’s out there! Many of you will know what it’s like when you are making or organising something, and then other people come along and don’t do things exactly the way you’d want them to. Hear from the creators of our superbly silly titles in the Picture Books Shortlist for the Laugh Out Loud Awards 2023! I was so happy when I learned that Sarah McIntyre would be having a brand-new picture book, this time about a unicorn, no, a grumpycorn!

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But he can't get any ideas in his head, no matter what his friends try, no matter how shiny and fluffy and wonderful his pen is. On Christmas Eve, Justin Fletcher reads The Night Before Christmas by Clement Clarke Moore, which is also available on the CBeebies Storytime App.This entertaining picture book about friendship, collaboration and determination is a delight to share with young children. Just start writing or drawing, get something down on paper, no matter how boring or silly it is at first. Unicorn grumpily sends the sea creatures away, claiming they are interrupting his creative thought process. On Monday 19 December, Kate reads Grumpycorn, written and illustrated by Sarah McIntyre, a story celebrating teamwork, friendship and the joys of storytelling.

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But he learns that sometimes the cool kids aren’t always the best friends, and realised that his true home is with his motley old crew of friends who love him and who forgive him for acting like a bratty drama queen. In the book, I show Unicorn’s friends helping him, and that might be helpful for you; often I create much better stories when I work with friends and we can bat ideas around together.Narwhal pictures himself as a brave knight, Mermaid imagines battling with fearsome monsters, while Jellyfish fancies herself as a space explorer. I have a great appreciation of Sarah McIntyre and her work, and the images found here are no exception. As someone who loves picture books, very much, and always gives them a 4-5 star rating, I am disappointed that this book didn't reach the level of expectation I had. The ending was disappointing for me but I can still see this book being popular for lower elementary teachers to use as a teaching tool during writing class.

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On Thursday 22 December, Anthony reads the classic children’s book The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats about a little boy named Peter who puts on his snowsuit and steps out of his house into a world blanketed in snow. However, if someone would bring me cookies (like our mermaid cook did) I would be all over my grumpy mood and shove all the cookies in my mouth. Winslet’s upcoming projects include a biographical film, in which she stars as Elizabeth “Lee” Miller, a fashion model-turned-war correspondent for Vogue, which will be one of the 37 world premieres at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) this September.

Celebrate all things Grumpycorn with this brand new interview with superstar author and illustrator Sarah McIntyre! British actress Kate Winslet has performed a surprise reading to the crowd’s delight at Camp Bestival Shropshire.

Kate Winslet, Anthony Joshua, Richard E. Grant and Justin

When the story was first released in 1962, Peter was among the first African-American characters to be featured in a major children's book. That journalist deleted what he’d written, and wrote much better things when the campaign really started making a difference in the publishing industry. Kate Winslet leads a stellar line-up of stars who will read stories on CBeebies over Christmas and the New Year. delightful and fun, and now I'm dying to know what moonberry tea and mermaid-baked cookies are like. I didn’t have an idea right then, so I just started poking a story into my phone, about someone who didn’t have an idea for a story.While I was there, I got to know children’s book artist Valisa Higman and see the amazing floating cottage her dad built, and where she works. Vibrant illustrations, which are full of humorous detail, burst from every page to bring the funny, warm-hearted tale to life. The art was just amazingly fun, but then again, I had high hopes given that this is Sarah McIntyre and she makes some amazing gorgeous illustrations. His plaintive ‘I want to go home’ really struck a chord with me when I wrote it, and that’s when I knew this book could work. Sarah is immensely proud of Britain's amazing illustrators and how well their pictures tell stories.