Mr Bunny's Chocolate Factory

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Share what you both liked about the book – this might be to do with the story or the illustrations. This book was a delight, how it all first started with everyone being quite happy, with the factory growing, to Mr. Bunny going totally bonkers and forcing his employees to do stuff that no one should be doing (working day/night, no vacations, forced chocolate eating). Of course you can imagine what will happen! If not, well this book clearly shows what happens when chocolate hits the fan.

The teacher assessment frameworks for writing place an emphasis on children writing for a range of purposes and audience. Your child could write a letter to Mr Bunny to complain about the way he is treating his workers or make a list of demands for better treatment. Huge congratulations to Elys for winning the picture book category at The Lollies, all the books were voted for by children. We think it’s a worthy winner, we find more humour in the story every time we read it 🙂At EYFS, writing tasks work best if children can relate to the experience (concrete rather than abstract).

What advice would you give to young children who would like to pursue a career in illustration and writing? Things escalate after the campaign and I was just laughing, those wasps and their bubbles were brilliant, especially those with emojis. Job advert/application: Mr Bunny has advertised a job – write the advert. Write in role to apply for the job.

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Features of specific genre should be taught first and form the main body of success criteria (grammar objectives should be secondary). Children could design a chocolate bunny producing machine, drawing their ideas on paper or making a junk model. Tässä kuvakirjassa Pupulla, eikun anteeksi Herra Pupulla on suklaatehdas. Suklaatehdas tuottaa suklaamunia, jotka munii lauma kanoja. Herra Pupun salaisella reseptillä loihditut suklaalevyt syötetään kanoille, jotka sitten munivat suklaamunia liukuhihnalle. Munat pakataan ja kiidätetään kauppoihin. Kirja kertoo siitä, mitä tapahtuukaan kun Herra Pupu muuttuu ahneeksi ja pakottaa kanasensa munimaan entistä tiheämmällä tahdilla suklaamunia...

Talk about how the workers in Mr Bunny’s factory feel in the middle of the story when he wants them to work harder and at the end. The illustrations, well, I think you can guess how I liked those, given that I bought this book because of them. I had quite a laugh at the Debbie situation. From her going missing, to posters, to signs, and then when something happens I was just exclaiming in delight: “OMG there is Debbie! Yay! Debbie!” Yep, I was totally invested in finding out what happened to Debbie and if she was still around. I loved that this bit was added. Tämä kirja oli oivaa lukemista ennen pääsiäistä. Suklaaövereiden, sokerinsyömisen ja terveellisten elämäntapojen kontrasti oli kirjassa mielestäni tuotu esille loistavalla tavalla. Meillä kuulijatkin miettivät, oliko suklaansyömisessä nyt päätä, häntää, pyrstöä tai edes sitä suklaamunaa, mikäli kanoille tuli niin kovin kehno olo. I don’t think that I do often consciously try to balance those two aspects. I find what exactly a book is going to be about is dictated by the characters and the world they inhabit. The more I get to know them through drawing then the more their thoughts, feelings, quirks and motivations become clear. For me, once I start to shape all this into an interesting and engaging story the balance between what’ll make a reader think and what’ll make them laugh finds a natural equilibrium.Non-chronological report: imagine Mr Bunny gets a visit from the ‘Health and Safety Department,’ what will the report say? Teachers should use the language ‘Who’ are we writing to and ‘Why’ are we writing rather than purpose and audience. How difficult is it writing something that aims to make children laugh and think? How do you balance the two? Go behind the scenes of Mr Bunny’s chocolate factory in this hilarious picture book and winner of the 2018 Laugh Out Loud Book Awards (Lollies)!

I love being surrounded by people who are just as nerdily excited by children’s books as I am. Being an author and illustrator can be quite an isolating job. You spend a lot of your time in a room on your own colouring in for hours on end. So it’s great to go out and talk to actual humans. Also, being able to hear all my students exciting ideas and sit down and refine those ideas and problem solve really keeps me on my toes. I think being a teacher makes me a better illustrator and being a practicing illustrator makes me a better teacher so the roles connect well. I know you’re a lecturer on the MA in Children’s Book Illustration at the Cambridge School of Art. What do you particularly enjoy about this role? Do you think teaching in this capacity has helped your own writing and creative process? Talk about anything that puzzles children for example unfamiliar words or phrases such as ‘crank chocolate production up to the max’, ‘quota’ or ‘poultry’. Act out an imaginary conversation between Mr Bunny and one of his workers together complaining about conditions in the factory and making demands. Write simple, coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real or fictional).Write about real events, recording these simply and clearly write simple, coherent narratives about personal experiences and those of others (real or fictional).