Once There Were Giants

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I have chosen this book for my second review as I believe it tries to demonstrate to children the process of birth to adulthood and the experiences of life at each stage in this process.

Ideas range from making a fruit salad, a mobile depicting the lifecycle and a butterfly and using the story to explore simple graphing and maths problems (If one caterpillar ate through three plums, how many plums how many plums would four caterpillars eat? Above all, the book looks at family life and children can associate with this, regardless of background and cultures.I recently was going through a lot of boxes of old books and found it again, and ended up sniffing and wiping away tears by the end of it. The book then discusses the woman finding employment and eventually marrying and becoming a mother herself, thus going full cycle of a person's life. This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. A good book for Key Stage 1 or Early Years, however, some may find the illustrations a bit dark and more exciting things could have happened during her lifetime. I'm giving the three stars, although it is a nice book I feel more exciting things could have happened in her lifetime and its probably not a book children would want to read over and over again.

What if giants are not myths at all, but a part of our actual history, that has been hidden from us, up till now? Ladybirds are a useful lifecycle to study as there are likely to be less children who are already familiar with the stages of a ladybird's life. This would be great to share with children and to spark conversation about the different life stages that animals and plants go through.The skeleton stood at 7ft 4” tall, which was astounding, considering that the average height of a woman in those days was only 5ft 8”. The giant ape species Gigantopithecus blacki may have stood up to 10 feet tall and died out just a few hundred thousand years ago — meaning our evolutionary cousins existed alongside them. Here I am going on about ways to use is to teach when I also shouldn't overlook the sweetness or the reflection on life that the book has.

The children will be looking at the story 'Once there were Giants' and talking about the giants in their lives. Some may dismiss these stories as mere legends or fantasies, while others question whether there is evidence leading to the possibility that giants, in some form, may have once roamed our world. The largest hominoid, Gigantopithecus blacki, may have stood at 10 feet tall, but died out a few hundred thousand years ago.For your last week of home learning we are going to reflect on how much we have grown up and learnt.

The book attempts to portray to the reader that as people age they become more "sensible and stable" and this is required in life, especially as the girl becomes a woman to a mother.The book could perhaps be criticised for depicting an idealistic picture of an extended family who appear to live harmoniously under one roof for much of the story.