He decides to visit his mongoose relatives across the country and finds reasons to leave each place. Children who like lift-the-flap books will love lifting the post cards to see what is written on the other side. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn`t fit in. I think its great that this is then accompanied by illustrations to enable children to imagine different stages of the meerkat's life easier, such as building a sandcastle. It's a story about a meerkat who gets tired of where he lives and travels to all his relatives homes and sends back postcards.

Emily Gravett is twice winner of the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal and the Nestlé Children's Book Prize Bronze Award for WOLVES and LITTLE MOUSE'S BIG BOOK OF FEARS. Although there are some more complex newspaper articles in the front and back of the book that would almost definitely need to be read by a parent. But Sunny is starting to feel claustrophobic and decides to set off to stay with his mongoose cousins and explore the outside world.Sunny the Meerkat lives in the Kalahari desert but one day Sunny decides to pack his bags and visit his mongoose cousins. Model writing a postcard from Sunny to his family, using the information headings to structure the content. At every relative's abode, he sends a postcard home, which is cleverly attached to a page of each 2-page spread.

When we had found all of the key features we started to discuss what we could put in our own postcards to Sunny. The illustrations convey as much as the text, and children can be helped to understand events, feelings, character details and motivations by close reading of both. But from the watery world of the Marsh Mongoose to the nocturnal lifestyle of the Malagasy Mongoose, Sunny just doesn’t fit in. g. climbing the monkey bars), then the children selected one or two of the pictures and wrote a postcard based on that. Use Pie Corbett’s Talk for Writing sequence (Imitation- Innovation-Invention), with a final outcome of a mini-leaflet or Wikipedia page.Discuss and record what the children know about these particular animals and support them in preparing their questions for the visit. Focus on reading a range of printed and multi-modal information texts, then provide umpteen opportunities for the children to gather facts about wild animals across the world, but not meerkats, as you will need this animal later. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. This activity encourages creativity and your classes writing skills will see improvement as their storytelling is confined to a small space. I've checked the resource here and it's downloading properly for me - I'll send it over to you now so you'll be able to access it right away.