As the boy and robot walk home together, the boy explains his plan, and the robot quizzes him on how to pretend to be him, giving the boy (and the reader) the opportunity to examine all the aspects of himself that make him unique.

Yoshitake's book is a wonderful reflection on what it is to be the only you in the world but not done in the painfully schmalzy way that some early reader books do. Created with a view to being delivered in the first PSHE lesson of the year, this hour-long, fully resourced lesson is a perfect introduction to the KS1 PSHE curriculum. EC Resources are the top TES PSHE providers and are a group of teachers who work together to create easy to use, high quality and editable lessons and units of work. We have created lessons for The Children’s Commissioner, The Bank of England, MACS Charity, Tes, LikeToBe Careers, the Criminal Cases Review Commission (UK Gov) and have also completed PSHE and Citizenship commissions for schools across the UK. I loved this book but it took a second reading to want to read it. With this interesting transition occurring at the moment between picture books, non-fiction and graphic novels this fusion text was a surprise in terms of format but once I got used to it I understood that I had in my hands a really special book indeed.I know that @parky_teaches has used this book in this way, and I would love it if any of you reading this wanted to as well. Make sure to tweet about it and tag me – @jonnywalker_edu A boy, worn out by "doing things (he) didn't want to do. Homework, tidying up, helping around the house..." gets the idea to buy a robot to do all those things for him.

I am interrogating the role of anecdotes in the classroom at the minute – I guess this is my little teaching preoccupation – and this book has a great scope for it. Storytelling can go beyond narrating the written word, and I think there is merit in pupils ability to speak narratively about their own experiences. What Happens Next? – What Happens Next? follows a child’s hilarious, wildly inventive train of thought following the death of his grandfather and the discovery of his journal, in which his grandfather had jotted his thoughts about life after death and the ideal heaven. Bursting with imaginative illustrations, this thought-provoking book offers an engaging and enjoyable experience that not only sparks discussion but also serves as an ideal catalyst for exploring the concept of each person’s distinct uniqueness. Teachers could use this book as an icebreaker discussion to enable a new class to get to know themselves and others, for thoughtful artwork based on the fun labelled diagrams in the book or for PSHE lessons about expressing and celebrating individuality. The lesson includes a ‘What can you see?’ starter activity, a story with accompanying questions, a set of activities linked to the text, and a plenary task. To get what I mean, think about one of your classes: you will have a couple of children in there who can capture the attention of everyone in their class when they are telling even a quite objectively boring and uneventful anecdote, and you will have some children who, even if something truly remarkable has happened to them, haven’t got the capacity to tell it well.Being able to tell a story, in the form of anecdote, is a valuable social skill, a form of confidence building, and it is also supportive of an understanding of storytelling more generally. In doing so, we get a wonderful, ingenious insight into how his mind works, the people and things that matter to him and the things that can get him down.