The Hodgeheg

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He does so and, after the driver of a milk float almost crashes to avoid him, Max arrives home safely.

So one day he readies himself at the edge of the path and when the man turns green he tries to run across the road. Firstly, he finds a zebra crossing and decides that this must be the secret to crossing the road safely. The next morning at the crack of dawn a family of hedgehogs cross the road with the help of the lolipop lady, and they all make it to the park. Max's first attempt is at a zebra crossing, where he injures himself receiving a nasty bump on his head.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Max is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but it’s on the wrong side of the road from the Park where there’s a beautiful lily pond and plenty of juicy slugs, worms and snails! The story focusses on Max the "hodgeheg" who tries to devise a way in which hedgehogs can cross the road safely. Still determined to fulfil his mission, Max discovers the best way to cross the road is with the help of the lollipop lady and some careful detective work.

He is determined to reach the park where there is lots of juicy food like worms so he begins to watch the humans crossing. The slides will remind children of the features of a non-chronological report and discuss what they need to include in their plan. It does stop short if describing deaths but a curious child could well have questions based on the text. Max is a hedgehog who lives with his family, but their house is on the wrong side of the road from the park where there is a beautiful lily pond and plenty of juicy slugs! Children will also be encouraged to use adjectives to add more detail into their writing, as well as generalisers to describe how many or how often.I liked this book because it has a very curious hedgehog who wants to stop cars from running over hedgehogs. In the final lesson in this six-part series, your class will be writing non-chronological reports on hedgehogs, based on the plan they created in the previous lesson. It's a great story for teaching road safety awareness, particularly as all of Max's early attempts to cross the road come so close to ending badly. Onto the book: I loved this book, quite a cute plot: a hedgehog wants to resolve the issue of hedgehogs getting hit while crossing the street. Sparkling humour and wonderful characters are Dick King-Smith’s trademarks’ – Books for Your ChildrenMax is a hedgehog who lives with his family in a nice little home, but it’s on the wrong side of the road from the Park where there’s a beautiful lily pond and plenty of juicy slugs, worms and snails!