The Promise

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Spring Fever at Silver Street Farm (2011) Illustrated by Katharine McEwen, published by Walker Books In addition, the lessons are embedded in a children’s rights perspective and comprises three categories: protection, provision and participation. This threefold categorisation is referred to as the ‘3Ps’ which we have applied to our picturebook-based English Language Teaching (ELT) lessons to create a pedagogical framework (see below). This framework enables teachers to create a relationship of shared control with their pupils and allows pupils to exercise their agency and participate fully in their own learning.

I don’t know how I thought of the street child as my story’s protagonist. I don’t know why I gave her no name and implied that she was just one in a long line of planters, passing on their task of greening cities across generations and continents. All I know is that one day I sat down at my desk and two hours later I had the text of The Promise . The choice of illustrator was just as intuitive. I saw Laura Carlin ’s extraordinary work for Ted Hughes’ The Iron Man and knew that her way of defining space and how humans move within it was the absolute key to the visual storytelling The Promise needed. When the book was published in 2013 I knew we had created something really wonderful, something world changingly powerful. But there was no launch and no fanfares. And the world did not change as I had hoped. They link to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (#1, #2) and The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (#9, #19, #24, #26, #27, #40).This lesson is suitable for use with secondary learners with a pre-intermediate level of English and beyond. The Mountain Lamb (2019) with illustrations by Cathy Fisher, published by Graffeg - part of the Country Tales series Laura Carlin ταιριάζει απόλυτα στο ύφος του παραμυθιού. Στην αρχή χαρακτηρίζεται από δυστοπικές γκρι εικόνες, ενώ αργότερα το σχέδιο αλλάζει και γίνεται πιο ζωηρό και χρωματιστό, όπως αλλάζει και το ύφος της ιστορίας. Το σχέδιο της είναι τόσο απλό που θυμίζει έντονα παιδικές ζωγραφιές, δημιουργώντας έ��σι και μία περιέργεια και μία ταύτιση στους νεαρούς αναγνώστες κατά τη διάρκεια της παρατήρησης των οικείων εικόνων. Έτσι επιτυγχάνει τον σκοπό του που είναι να επικεντρωθεί ο αναγνώστης στα συναισθήματα που δημιουργεί. Βοηθός το χρώμα και οι έντονες μολυβιές.

The lesson sets provide a structured plan and clear guidelines for pupils to engage with an authentic piece of children’s literature, a picturebook, in which both the words and the pictures create meaning. Individual differences in primary and lower secondary pupils are especially marked, but picturebooks can be interpreted on many levels and thus satisfy pupils of different ages and at different points in their English language learning. The lessons provide activities which teachers can select according to the age, language level and interests of the pupils in their classes and provide pupils with stimulating activities to develop their critical thinking as well as their English language skills. Participation

Teachers are encouraged to share the lesson objectives with their pupils to make learning explicit and purposeful. Part C: Lesson plan This is a somewhat improbable story about a young girl who lived in a city that was mean and hard and ugly, and she supported herself by stealing. The Little Mistake (2018) with illustrations by Cathy Fisher, published by Graffeg - part of the Country Tales series

Nicola Davies gives unique insight into the making of children’s environmental book, The Promise , and its journey from print to a new BBC film set for release in October. Out of the blue there was another big green shoot. A film director called Chi Thai wanted to make an animated film version for a BBC environmental film slot. She was the perfect person to make the film, not just immensely skilled and creative, but she got what the book was trying to do, she got what Laura and I had created. All three of us were on the same wavelength from the moment we first met. One World: 24 Hours on Planet Earth (2021) Illustrated by Jenni Desmond, published by Walker Books *Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2022

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Protecting the Planet: The Season of Giraffes (2022) Illustrated by Emily Sutton, published by Walker Books