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jueves, 18 de julio de 2013

Mo Willems

I've just discovered Mo Willems! I have bought one of his books and it is so funny. I like the way characters interact with the reader.



 


 
 
 
"WE ARE IN A BOOK!"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"I AM INVITED TO A PARTY!"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
"DON'T LET THE PIGEON DRIVE THE BUS!"
 
 
 
 
 
"LEONARDO, THE TERRIBLE MONSTER"
 
 
 
 
En español
 
 Acabo de descubrir a Mo Willems y me encanta. Sobre todo me gusta la forma en que sus libros interactúan con el lector, sin olvidar ese punto de sentido del humor. Muy interesantes para hacer pequeños teatrillos o role-plays.
 
 
 
"¡NO DEJES QUE LA PALOMA CONDUZCA EL AUTOBÚS!"
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

sábado, 3 de marzo de 2012

COLIN WEST



Colin West is a British author and illustrator. He studied graphic design and his illustrations are very powerful. Most of his picture books have a repetitive text and a wonderful sense of humour.

"Predictable books allow early readers to predict what the sentences are going to say, thereby increasing enjoyment and helping to build vocabulary and memory skills."    Education Oasis

Children love his sense of humour!









POETRY FOR CHILDREN





En español:
   Colin West es un autor e ilustrador británico que tiene varios libros para niños. En la mayoría de sus libros destaca el sentido del humor. Muchos de ellos tienen un texto repetitivo que favorece la participación; el niño puede predecir parte de la siguiente frase lo que ayuda a que  disfrute del libro, mejore su vocabulario y sus habilidades memorísticas  (aunque haya niños que no hayan empezado con el proceso de lecto-escrituro todavía).

   Con niños pequeños, los libros de Colin West  podrían servir para disfrutar de la lectura;  y con niños más mayores podríamos crear un libro utilizando la estructura repetitiva, pero  cambiando los personajes o el final.







   Me gustaría destacar también su libro de poesía para niños. Traducido sería algo así como: “El gran libro de sinsentido”: poemas que te hacen reír a carcajadas.




domingo, 5 de febrero de 2012

LUCY COUSINS


Lucy Cousins is a British writer and illustrator of very young children's books. Her books of Maisy Mouse are very famous and children love them.





Some of my pupils are quite surprised to discover that Maisy
is a girl and not a boy.
MAISY MOUSE












HOORAY FOR FISH!




You can use this video to tell or re-tell the story:


YUMMY



En español:

 Lucy Cousins es una autora e ilustradora británica muy conocida por sus álbumes ilustrados para niños pequeños. Sus ilustraciones ya cuentan una historia por si solas y los colores son muy brillantes; tienen fuerza y captan la atención desde un principio.


A los niños les encantan las historias de Maisy Mouse.




lunes, 2 de enero de 2012

JULIA DONALDSON and AXEL SCHEFFLER


Julia Donaldson is a British writer and best known as the author of "The Gruffalo" and "The Gruffalo’s Child". She also writes poems, songs and plays for children.

 
More information about Julia:






 

AXEL SCHEFFLER is a German  illustrator best known for his illustrations for children's books.




 
THE GRUFFALO












THE GRUFFALO'S CHILD



 


I know that "The Gruffalo" is a very famous book but I prefer "The Gruffalo's Child" and  I love "Monkey Puzzle".


Some links:


Monkey Puzzle




"Poor little monkey! He is lost and he can't find his mum. Butterfly is vey kind trying to help him but it is not doing it very well ...why?"

                     Fantastic book to work  life cycles!

 

Other books:














En español: 

  Julia Donaldson es una autora de libros, poemas, obras de teatro y canciones nacida en Londres, Gran Bretaña. Es muy conocida por su libro "El grúfalo" pero tiene una gran cantidad de libros para niños y adolescentes. Yo prefiero "El hijo del grúfalo" (pero para entender este libro hay que leer el grúfalo) y "¿Dónde está mamá?" (el título en castellano no se parece mucho al original).

  Tanto "El grúfalo" como "El hijo del grúfalo" han sido creados en película para la televisión británica BBC.





*  Un monito se pierde y no es capaz de encontrar a su mamá. Una amable mariposa le ayudará a encontrarla pero ...no lo hace muy bien. ¿Por qué?

¡Me encanta este libro! Estupendo para trabajar los animales y sus características (los adjetivos). Antes de leer este libro, yo trabajaría el ciclo de la vida de varios animales; por ejemplo: la gallina, la rana, la mariposa y el mono. O si queremos podemos hacer el ciclo de la vida de:  la mariposa, una persona, una planta y/o el  del agua.










martes, 22 de noviembre de 2011

ERIC CARLE



I love Eric Carle's books! He was born in USA (1929) and  is  the creator (illustrator and author) of picture books for very young children. Eric Carle has illustrated more than seventy books, most of which he also wrote. His first book was 'Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?' written by Bill Martin Jr. His art work is created in collage technique using lots of bright colours.

Eric Carle is bilingual, German/English, and his books are great for pupils that are new to the English language because they have got a repetitive structure and pictures are very powerful. His stories invite to participate in a repeated phrase and there is an element of predictability. 

Books that have strong repetitive structures allow children to anticipate and predict the remaining text. They give children strong support in their attempts to make meaning.
 
'Children who are beginning to learn English as another language gain from high quality picture books with clear illustrations, repetitive text and strong language patterns.' Patience MacGregor  (1999): .Refugee children. Early Years Educator. Vol.1 No 5












Some of his books are:

         Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you See?







                        The Very Hungry Caterpillar



 

The Mixed-Up Chameleon






The Bad-Tempered Ladybird





 


The Very Quiet Cricket


The Tiny Seed








martes, 16 de agosto de 2011

TONY ROSS


Tony Ross is a very popular children's books  illustrator. He is the writer and illustrator of the series of books  "The Little Princess".

http://www.contemporarywriters.com/authors/?p=authC2D9C28A0284033B20nLl2CCBDF1

http://www.lovereading4kids.co.uk/author/1188/Tony-Ross.html


                                          THE LITTLE PRINCESS





It is a lovely  book about  toilet training.  'Little accidents' may happen sometimes, even to princesses. Very funny!
http://www.babble.com/toddler/toddler-health-safety/potty-training-books-video-dvds/









Sometimes the Little Princess needs to improve  her manners. Too many 'I wants'...Where are 'the magic words'? "Please" and "thank you" are important words for everyone; for  royalty too.

"'I wants' doesn't 'gets'."

viernes, 12 de agosto de 2011

JEZ ALBOROUGH

Jez Alborough is an author and illustrator of children’s picture books born in Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey (Great Britain).






                                  Jez Alborough, creating a book 


These are some of his books:

Where is my Teddy?




I like to use this book to work sizes and adjectives:

BIG-GIGANTIC- HUGE


SMALL-TINY

I made my own story props (visual aids):

Eddy, the little teddy, the little bed
The gigantic bear, the gigantic teddy bear, the big bed

'Visual aids can help to get the grips with the meaning of a story. If we use them at first reading, they  could help pupils to know the characters and the main features.'  Patience





I had used this book to make posters (similar to "wanted posters"). I divided the classroom into two groups. One group was pretending to be the little boy and made a poster asking for help to find his teddy bear. The other group was the big bear looking for his big teddy bear.




                                          HUG






 
WASHING LINE


Very useful to improve vocabulary about clothes having fun.





*I studied in this beautiful building,
Froebel, Roehampton University (Surrey)


I lived and worked in Surrey for few years …nice memories.