Hamilton's Year 3/4 English plans cover all of the statutory objectives of the National Curriculum for England's English objectives.

It actually creates a situation where the main character’s, and the child reader’s sense of security and power, is violated. I learned, in depth, what I had already known superficially about wolves and the "bad rap" they have received for several hundred years. Emily first sprang into the limelight with the ground-breaking Wolves, which has been followed by such modern classics as Meerkat Mail, Little Mouse's Big Book of Fears, Monkey and Me and Again! This book was meant as a little bit of irony and black humor (a rabbit checking out a book about wolves? One of the preparatory drawings I made for the woodcutter project was of a group of trees in wolf form.

The next page of the book reveals the next page of Rabbit's book, which is still framed but takes up a larger portion of the page.

That bunny should have picked a book on rabbits or mice or ladybugs--something smaller and less ferocious! My timing in actually reading this book is ironic in that, over the weekend, I attended a presentation about wolf rescue. The whole time the wolf in the story almost seems to come to life and hunt the rabbit down in the book. All the birds have laid an egg and are eagerly anticipating the arrival of their chicks, but poor Duck can’t understand why he hasn’t produced an egg too. But he is warned that being naughty will mean 'A mammoth's going to throw you to the big brown bear!These comparative relationships are not just apparent in the representation of the rabbit's physical world and the world of the book he reads - they are also present in the construction of Gravett's picturebook itself. I would use this book throughout KS1 as I feel its layout makes it a perfect art resource for the older children as well as being a great book for younger children to enjoy hearing and exploring. The mixed media approach and scrapbook style layout of the illustrations makes it highly stylised, and I worry a little that the layout of the book is aimed at an older audience than the story, which itself contains some subtle and sly humour. Emily Gravett is twice winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award for WOLVES and LITTLE MOUSE'S BIG BOOK OF FEARS.

Watch our PBS Launching Young Readers series and try our self-paced Reading 101 course to deepen your understanding. The species we see today are almost identical to their ancestors which flew over 300 million years ago. And when I woke up in the next morning, which was a Sunday morning, I had the words “orange pear, apple bear” going round and round in my head.This resource illustrates the vocabulary associated with diet and each organism's position in the food chain. In the beginning of the story, when Rabbit first begins reading the library book "Wolves", the book itself is framed and offset to the left of the unframed illustration of Rabbit, which shows him walking along and reading the book. For the paperback I wanted to give children the chance to become bookbinders because it was so much part of the original process for me. But it's not long before a sinister figure with sharp claws and a bushy tail starts to creep right off the pages. The illustrations in his book also reflect this type of line - sketchy and incomplete - differentiating both Rabbit and the wolf illustrations from the solid and complete lines of the book itself and, in turn, creating a sense of relationship between Rabbit and the story he reads.

The small green dragon’s evening ritual includes a bedtime story which he demands AGAIN until the parent finally is tuckered out. When the rabbit supposedly gets gobbled, the reader sees only the red, scratched-up, photo-realistic cover of the rabbit’s book.

I selected this book from the library a few weeks ago but hadn't got around to reading it yet--I'm a fan of wolves and hoped this would be cute. Wolves also communicates a much different message than most children’s books, even disturbing and subversive titles.