Not Now, Bernard: Board Book: 1

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Bernard's parents are so busy doing their own thing, that the monster can eat Bernard's dinner, break his toys, and even eat Bernard, without being noticed! By 2019, she was arguing in private that Britain could safely walk away from the EU without a comprehensive deal. His famous characters include Elmer the patchwork elephant, Mr Benn, King Rollo and of course Bernard.

This is a story about two neglectful parents who are so disinterested in the welfare and activities of their child, they fail to notice when he is savagely attacked and eaten in the garden by a monster. But on the other hand, I did enjoy the silliness of the story, with the illustrations of the monster adapting to Bernard's life and the repetition of 'Not now, Bernard. It's a very simple story for the very young and I think would be ideal for reading aloud to a reception or KS1 class.This activity would be an effective way for the children to get to know a text and a great way of incorporating dialogic talk into the classroom. This book explores a young boys struggle to gain attention from his parents as he is repeatedly told 'not now, Bernard'. The format of this book is: softback cover with matt finish, tiresias font of 75pt, and Grade 1 UEB Braille. At first I was shocked because I thought how can the story carry on from this, however, after reading on I realised that the monster was resembling Bernard's inner anger and the reason why his parents kept on saying to the 'monster' 'not now, Bernard' was because deep down it still was Bernard.

Liz Truss, the likely winner of the leadership contest, insists otherwise with the vehemence of a zealous convert. For parents, it's actually a good reminder that, if you don't give your children enough positive attention, they will soon turn into little monsters. That volatility – two general elections and three changes of prime minister in six years – is a function of the struggle to turn an ideal Brexit, nurtured in the parochial Eurosceptic imagination, into a reality-based Brexit involving other countries and real people’s jobs.Children get it, it's not scary, just funny, the illustrations are very clear and the characters are brilliant. After hearing this book in a seminar it’s really made me think of how this could be incorporated into many cross curricular aspects in school. Tories now speak increasingly fondly of the outgoing prime minister, not because they remember him as a skilled leader, but because his unique skill is mesmerising them into forgetting what good government is meant to look like. During the story Bernard comes across a monster in his garden and goes in to tell his mother who responds with 'not now, Bernard', as the story carries on Bernard gets eaten up by the monster.

Free trade deals with non-European states that were meant to compensate for the loss of continental custom have had negligible impact. The monster goes into the house and tries to attract the parents' attention but gets the same reaction from them, completely oblivious to the monster replacing their son. The rest of the class as the audience could think of questions to ask each character, whilst the children ask questions the teacher could scribe key phrases and responses on the whiteboard. I liked this book as a child and obviously didn't read any more into it, than a monster eating Bernard.Although it took me until the end of this book to realise this, as at first I thought Bernard had been eaten by a monster.