Here We Are: The phenomenal international bestseller from Oliver Jeffers

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In this activity your class will add in the capital letters and full stops to complete the sentences. Jeffers offers notes on how to live on planet Earth, helping the reader make sense of the world and their role in it. Here We Are encompasses the mountains and oceans, space and constellations, and the animals and people who populate the Earth. This book contains things that the author thinks his baby son needs to know. Make your own set of notes that tell younger children things they need to know.

Here We Are — Oliver Jeffers

Beautiful book. As the reader, you are invited to fully immerse yourself into the intriguing wonders on Earth and beyond. The voice is calm and kind, with a hint of humour- the perfect balance. I am charmed. A very good birthday gift to a recently birthed child. It doesn't resemble Mo Willem's instruction manual, but it delighted me just as much. The dodo explains that it isn’t supposed to be in the book. Why is this? Can you find out about other animals that have become extinct? What can we do to protect animals on our planet? This is a useful activity to help your class use a lovely range of adjectives in context of the Here We Are story by Oliver Jeffers. Nine and ten-year old children are gifted with a unique kind of wisdom and freedom of thought. These students realize a father has not only given his son but other daughters and sons of the present and future a remarkable gift. HERE WE ARE: NOTES FOR LIVING ON PLANET EARTH (Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, November 14, 2017) written and illustrated by Oliver Jeffers is a message of hope, a gift of love.

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There is a quote from J.M. Barrie at the beginning of the book. Can you find other inspirational quotes and share what they mean with others? The book tells us that ‘there is enough for everyone’. Is everything shared equally between people on the planet? Why? Watch this video trailer for the book. Could you make your own trailer for this book (or another one of your favourite books)?

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Y es que este libro ilustrado te invita a recordar que todos somos diferentes, pero al mismo tiempo, iguales. Te invita a recordar que eres parte de algo, de un planeta, aunque a veces en el traqueteo de la vida no te des cuenta. Por su sencillez, al ser una obra dedicada hacia los niños, Oliver Jeffers transmite todo ese amor de manera efímera, en una gama de colores brillantes y muy pocas palabras. Creo que para un niño puede resultar más sencillo de entender, porque normalmente, creo yo, son puros y no tienen la cabeza llena de pensamientos angustiantes y dolorosos como los adultos. No juzgan por religiones, aspectos o estatus. Creo que los adultos sí tendemos a hacerlo y por ello, Jeffers habla mayormente de lo que él quiere transmitir a su hijo: el mensaje del amor. The book includes a huge collection of vocabulary to describe Earth. Can you make a dictionary based on these words?And for more insight into Oliver Jeffers' life, you could also have a look at this Oliver Jeffers PowerPoint.