Our author for February was Lauren Child, an award winning children’s author from England, best known for the Charlie and Lola stories. Child writes about characters and events that five and six year olds can relate to from their own first hand experiences. The stories are a great way of getting the children to think more deeply about the characters in a story and about why authors portray characters in a particular way.
As the children become increasingly aware of text and text styles, they get particular enjoyment from the way that Lauren Child mixes text fonts, sizes,bold and regular, upper and lower case letters etc to create particular effects.
Many of the stories have been made into animated cartoons, available on YouTube. Below is one that we watched at the sleepover and which the children thought was particularly appropriate!
As the children become increasingly aware of text and text styles, they get particular enjoyment from the way that Lauren Child mixes text fonts, sizes,bold and regular, upper and lower case letters etc to create particular effects.
Many of the stories have been made into animated cartoons, available on YouTube. Below is one that we watched at the sleepover and which the children thought was particularly appropriate!