Through the story of Goat's active day, we are able to share the experience of the smallest children starting playgroup or nursery, suddenly encountering an environment with unfamiliar boundaries – where play is plentiful but controlled, and where we also occasionally have embarrassing moments like failing to make the toilet in time. Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - There is so much to talk about when you share the story. Some children will enjoy pointing to and naming the animals…‘dog’‘goat’. Some children will like to tell you what the animals are doing…‘Weasel is painting’. Some children will be able to share what they like to do at Nursery.

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Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta.There are lots of opportunities to explore number in the story. It is very important for children to hear counting words. Can you count together how many teddies Monkey is cuddling? Children will develop favourites when it comes to stories, rhymes and poems. Listening out for rhyming words is a fantastic pre-reading skill. Taking in some fresh air is a great idea. If you have a garden, can you find somewhere to climb like Goat? You can explore lots of ways to move your bodies- jumping, running, skipping, crawling. My real breakthrough was THE GRUFFALO, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books.

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One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it’s a tremendous way to improve their reading. Armistice Day: A Collection of Remembrance - Spark Interest and Educate Children about Historical Moments I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs.

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I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him). This is a firm favourite at Nursery – we use this story to help children settle and learn all the new routines. urn:lcp:goatgoestoplaygr0000dona:epub:a93581f0-f773-4719-8bdb-3520ac407ed9 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier goatgoestoplaygr0000dona Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t5kb1q53n Invoice 1652 Isbn 9781447210948 Goat hasn’t yet fitted into this routine, and would often rather be doing something else– so when it comes to circle time, he would rather be on the climbing frame!

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Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA16218 Openlibrary_edition Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers.

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At this age children begin to develop an awareness of family and relations. At the end of the story you are asked to help spot Goat’s Mum at home time. This is a lovely opportunity to share family photographs and discuss important people in your family.

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I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.