The Heart and the Bottle is wholly compelling for the importance of its message and the brilliance of how that is conveyed in words and pictures. This is a book to return to time and time again says Julia Eccleshare, Lovereading4kids’ editorial expert.

The boy and the penguin do everything together. Until the penguin decides he needs to learn how to fly…alone. The boy helps his friend as much as he can by researching ways to fly and trying to find flying experts to teach his friend how to fly. But the penguin finds his own way and when he heads off to do it, he becomes lost and the boy cannot find him. The boy figures out where he is, but will he be able to save him in time?

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The boy ‘rushed’ to find his friend. Try to find synonyms for ‘rushed’ to show different ways that people can move. Oliver loves plastic food, suitcase handles and Elvis, and has developed a bizarre habit of endlessly writing lists he never reads. He remains hell bent on travelling all over the world. Running away, the penguin visits place after place, searching for a chance to get his feet off the ground. But will flying be everything he had hoped? And is the boy missing him, as much as he is missing the boy? Teaching Ideas and Resources: English Watch this advert for the book. Could you make your own advertisement to persuade others to read it? Oliver Jeffers has won numerous awards and delighted millions of kids and parents alike with his beautifully hand illustrated stories.

An uplifting story! Pictures of such spare beauty suffused with a dreamlike quality. Independent OnlineInvestigate and make different paper aeroplanes. What makes them fly? Could you have a paper aeroplane competition? which one will fly the furthest / longest? Which one is the best design?

The boy and penguin duo whose story together began in Lost and Found return in this second Oliver Jeffers picture-book devoted to their adventures. Now fast friends, the two do everything together, until Penguin decides that he needs to fly, and that he must do it alone. He discovers that his heart's desire isn't everything he'd hoped however, when he joins the circus as a penguin cannonball act, and finds that he misses his friend...

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Find out about penguins. Where do they normally live? What do they eat? How are they adapted to live in particular habitats? This book is written with the same charming simplicity of the earlier books. There is such a gentle and loving spirit to these books. Yet they still have a spirit of adventure and surprise. The friendship between the two characters is strong and true, supporting one another even if the other friend needs to do something on their own. This is a touching story of real friendship. The penguin takes off ‘like a bullet’. Can you think of other similes to compare a fast / slow movement (or another action)? Oliver Jeffers makes impressive use of space in this affecting story of friendship. Illustrations capture feelings of loss and loneliness through the most delicate nuances of facial expression and body language. Julia Eccleshare, The

Find out about the history of flight. Who were the first people to fly? How did they achieve this? How have aircraft changed over the years? The boy and the penguin are good friends who always do everything together. Think about the things that you like to do with your friends. Jeffers continues his story of the friendship between a boy and penguin in this fourth book about the boy. The boy and the penguin are great friends. They do everything together. But when the penguin decided that he had to learn to fly, he knew he had to do it on his own. The boy tried to help, looking up information and trying to connect the penguin with flying experts. But when the penguin figures out a solution, he heads off immediately to make it happen. The boy had no idea where the penguin went. The penguin finds himself alone and lost, unable to get in touch with his friend. When the boy discovers where the penguin is, the question is whether he will be able to reach him in time to see his friend succeed or fall. Think of some speech bubbles for each of the illustrations. Could you turn this speech into a playscript with stage directions?Ocr tesseract 4.1.1 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_module_version 0.0.4 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA18290 Openlibrary_edition Jeffers’ illustrations are done in the same style as the earlier books in the series. They are done in a modern style that is infused with warmth from the charm of the characters and the bright colors. urn:lcp:updown0000jeff:epub:99000451-2519-420e-84c4-63aa5404fffe Foldoutcount 0 Identifier updown0000jeff Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t10q0mv8t Invoice 1652 Isbn 9780007263844