Forgotten the title or the author of a book? Our BookSleuth is specially designed for you. Visit BookSleuth Imagine that you could go diving underwater. What might you see? What words could you use to describe things? Watch this video to get some ideas: Julia Donaldson is one of today's most popular writers. Her bestselling titles include The Gruffalo, The Gruffalo's Child and Room on the Broom. Although she is best-known for her picture books, Julia also writes longer novels, plays and songs. She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows! By bestselling author, Julia Donaldson, Tiddler is now available in a board book format – perfect for babies and toddlers to hold and read along. A modern take on ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’. Tiddler is a tiny fish with a big imagination. He is frequently late for class and loves to tell tall tales as excuses. Neither his teacher nor his classmates believe his elaborate stories, but will they believe him when one of his crazy tales actually comes true?

Investigate any environmental issues linked to the sea. How does pollution affect sea creatures? How can people help ocean habitats? Tiddler loves to share his stories with his sea friends. Read all about Tiddler’s tales, enjoy the detailed illustrations by Axel Scheffler and have under-the-sea fun! Laugh along with your little ones with this funny and fabulous rhyming picture book. I did a lot of research for this underwater story and all the fish in it are real ones – except for the Gruffalo fish which Axel sneaked in. Write a story about one of the other sea creatures shown in the illustrations. Could you write a story about one of Tiddler’s school friends? When it comes to writing lesson plans and finding activities for Tiddler: The Story Telling Fish, we’ve already done all of the heavy lifting for you.Identify all of the rhyming words that are used in the story. Can you think of other words that rhyme with these? What lessons might the fish have at their school? Write a diary entry from the point of view of one of the fish, giving their thoughts about their lessons at school.

Tiddler sees some flying fish while he is having his adventure. Watch this video to learn more about them: Clutter-Free Classroom is the place where elementary teachers get the time-saving tips, ideas and resources they need to make teaching easier and more enjoyable.Although he looks small and ordinary, Tiddler is a fish who loves to tell tall tales. In school, he entertains his incredulous classmates with stories of diving with dolphins and meeting mermaids.

Tiddler: The Story Telling Fish is about a small grey fish named Tiddler who has a big imagination. He uses his imagination to think of big made up stories to tell other fish. Tiddler is consistently late to school and when he gets to school he tells a tall tale about why he was late. The other fish say that he is just telling stories and they don’t believe him. Write a story about Tiddler riding somewhere on a seahorse. Where does he go to? What happens there? Can you spot the ‘Gruffalo’ fish in the illustrations? Can you design your own fish based on a character from a popular story?In this much-loved picture book, a little mouse walks through the woods and encounters a fox, an owl and a snake.