This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 5 and Year 6. A prime example of this blend can be seen when a gargoyle is shown with dozens of pigeons perched upon him and leaving their "mottled stains".

Bunting’s evocative writing coupled with Wiesner’s eye-catching charcoal illustrations tell a playful but dark story. and end up going down nostalgia lane with books I adored as a young child and then lost to time and memory. This one was read to us when I was in primary school during library time, and I fell in love with it's grey-scale images, the way that the city was alight and alive even during the night, the way that artificial light and moonlight blended with the dark and shadow to make the night even more vibrant than the day. Resentful of her new stepmother, Laura clings to a family heirloom, a ""memory string"" of buttons taken from special garments.Wiesner creates his characters and scenery in the book through charcoal shading; this medium really helps to show the mysteriousness of the gargoyles and the talent Wiesner possesses as an artist. After her mother dies, 15-year-old Catherine is determined to join her father, a pirate captain, on the high seas. Many versions are sketched and revised until the story line flows smoothly and each image works the way he wants it to. They partake in activities like swimming in the fountains, looking through museum windows, and flying through the night sky.

The beautifully evocative text from Bunting, describing the antics of the gargoyles at night, is perfectly matched by the dark-toned but gorgeous pastel artwork of Wiesner in Night of the Gargoyles.

Old Badger awakens his little one with a special surprise in Little Badger's Just- About Birthday by Eve Bunting, illus.

The gargoyles in this haunting tale are mischievous as they “creep on stubs of feet…land in sleeping trees…and swoop to where a fountain splashes.When Carson takes his dog, Jack, to the vet, she informs them that Jack is too fat: "He needs less food and no snacks!

Her books are diverse in age groups, from picture books to chapter books, and topic, ranging from Thanksgiving to riots in Los Angeles. Einige von ihnen können sogar fliegen, doch die meisten hangeln sich nach unten, um dort Schabernack und allerlei Unsinn zu treiben.Wiesner captures all these moods and more in marvelously textured charcoal-powder illustrations that powerfully infuse the stone-solid watersprouts with life. The team behind So Far from the Sea adds a layer of interest to this tale of a boy's ambivalence toward the arrival of a new sibling a baby adopted from Korea. On the first night of Hanukkah every year, Grandma recites her experience as a 12-year-old in Buchenwald, when she risked her life to steal a potato and margarine to improvise one Hanukkah light.