The Smeds and the Smoos

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This books follows the story of a smed and a smoo who are both warned by their families to avoid the other. One is red and the other is blue. Despite their families views the smed and the smoo run away together and get married. Whilst Janet and Bill have ran away, their families look for them and in the process begin to form positive relationships. By a lobular lake on a far-off planet, a young red Smed called Janet lives with the other Smeds. Not far away, on a humplety hill, Bill, a young blue Smoo is getting bored of jumping around. Meeting by accident in the Wurpular Wood, Janet and Bill delight in each other’s company until their grandparents find out and drag them away. Julia Donaldson’s uses phonetically decodable alien words, such as ‘loobular lake’ and ‘glompoms’. This means that children are able to watch the decoding of alien words, modelled by a reader, or are able to practise decoding them themselves within a fun and memorable story, giving their work at school on alien words meaning and excitement.

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Write a sequel to this book? What might happen to the Smeds and the Smoos (and their new baby) next? Toivoin tältä Julia Donaldsonin Romeon ja Julian uudelleenkerronnalta hieman enemmän kuin mitä todellisuudessa sain. Erilaisuuden vieroksunta ja toisen suvun mustamaalaaminen ja totaalinen kanssakäynnin kieltäminen toki on ominaista myös alkuperäiselle tarinalle, mutta lastenkirjassa olisin toivonut hieman miedompia sanakäänteitä toisen puolen mustamaalauksessa. There are lots of made-up words in this book. Can you make a glossary to explain what they all mean? Could you make up some of your own words and write definitions?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. This story feels hyper relevant when you look at everything that's going on in the world at the moment. Republicans vs. Democrats, Conservatives vs. Labour, everywhere you look it's a red vs. blue world and for little ones who have no understanding of politics and no idea why everyone is so angry at each other it must be quite scary. It feels like The Smeds and the Smoos has arrived at exactly the right time, bursting onto the scene to remind children that underneath we are all the same. It doesn't matter what colour you are, and oftentimes the people warning you to stay away from others have no idea what they're really talking about. The newest rhyming picture book from the stellar pairing of Donaldson and Scheffler provides all their usual invention, quirkiness and read-aloud expertise in a story about tolerance and accepting difference. Want to be first to hear about shows, special offers and more? Of course you do! Here’s where you can sign up.

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With its made-up words and rhyming text, this will remind readers of Dr. Seuss. The Smeds and the Smoos join together when their children run off to elope. Where could the couple be? Can these two groups set aside their differences to find the two? The Smeds and The Smoos (2019) from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler - tells us the age old story of the Montagues and the Capulets, of the Sharks and the Jets of differences, of peace, love, tolerance and understanding - conceived, retold, reimagined, written and illustrated particularly brilliantly by Donaldson and Scheffler for younger readers. My current Y1 class are massive Julia Donaldson fans and so naturally, I have been working my way through her many books!

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I feel conflicted about The Smeds and the Smoos. A Smed and a Smoo fall in love despite multiple warnings from their grandparents about why they should be avoiding each other, but unlike Romeo and Juliet this love story has a happy ending. I think I read somewhere that this is like a modern-day Seuss and that seems so appropriate because of the wonderfully nonsensical but great rhyme, and the odd and outlandish characters. It's fun and the crazy wordplay is fabulous, and it's a book about learning to appreciate and love those who are "other." And since I so love The Gruffalo, I'm predisposed to like most anything this author writes.

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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. 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. The story uses phonetically decodable words and rhymes throughout which would give children the opportunity to read the story for themselves and recognise word patterns. Look at the other plants and creatures in the illustrations and think about how they might be adapted to living on the alien planet.Two young aliens from warring families fall in love and run away, leading their relatives on a chase across outer space. Animated adaptation of the children's book by Julia Donaldson. More A magical blend of catchy songs, adept storytelling and audience participation that youngsters lap up.” East Midlands Theatre Make a list of all the rhyming words in the book. Can you think of other words that rhyme with those? Whilst this wasn't the most original story, there twist of two alien races putting their differences aside due to young love is still a great way to explore acceptance and not to discriminate to even the youngest of readers.

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Music, laughs and interplanetary adventures for everyone aged 3 and up, from Tall Stories – the company that brought you The Gruffalo and Room on the Broom live on stage.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.