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Gorilla

Gorilla

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The toy magically grows into a real life gorilla and adopts the father figure role by taking Hannah to all the places she'd hoped to visit. The gorilla took Hannah to see the orang-utan,and a chimpanzee. She thought they werebeautiful. But sad. However on the eve of her birthday something peculiar happens… She awakens to discover a gigantic gorilla at the end of her bed! Thus, beginning a magical adventure, the pair embark on trips to the zoo and cinema.

The next morning Hannah excitedly jumps out of bed, sprinting, to tell dad her news of her amazing journey. He approaches her “happy birthday love, do you want to go to the zoo?” The reader can instantly feel Hannah’s joy, she is glowing with happiness; her one wish has come true. The next morning a very excited Hannah rushes downstairs to tell Daddy all about her adventure, but before she can say anything Daddy wishes her a Happy Birthday and asks her if she’d like to go to the zoo! Hannah is extremely happy. The book could be used as a class story because of the numerous talking points i.e. discussing Hannah’s emotions (there is a wide range throughout the text), whether animals should be kept in the zoo (Hannah says she feels “sad” when visiting the zoo) and the depiction of a single parent family (Hannah’s mum is absent from the story). The story could also help inspire creative writing; children could develop their own adventure/dream stories with their favourite animal. Or alternatively children could write a letter to Hannah’s Dad (or vice versa) explaining how she feels during the first part of the book, this activity may be better suited to older pupils.Hannah and the gorilla see the primates at the zoo. Can you find out about primates? What different types of primate are there? How are they similar / different? The best part with revisiting these is seeing the deeper meanings that you might have missed as a kid... In the middle of the night, Hannah woke upand saw a very small parcel at the foot of thebed. It was a gorilla, but it was just a toy. The night before her birthday, Hannah went tobed tingling with excitement – she had asked herfather for a gorilla!

Hannah, a young girl, absolutely adores gorillas. The posters in her room; the bedside lamp, the box of cereal, are all adorned with her favourite animal. She spends her time reading, drawing or watching programmes about them. She has yet to see one in the flesh.Afterwards the walked down the street together.“That was wonderful,” said Hannah, “but I’mhungry now.”“Okay,” said the gorilla, “we’ll eat.” A lovely story about how a lonely and neglected girl living with her father finds comfort and joy in the thing she loves the most, gorillas! For more on postmodern picture books see David Beagley’s lecture on iTunes U, or my notes on that, here. A less well-executed story may have started with something like, “Tomorrow it was Hannah’s birthday…” It is particularly masterful that Anthony Browne withholds this information until the conclusion. Why? Because the brightness associated with birthdays lightens the ending. Since the first part of the book is melancholic, a birthday tone would not fit well. What would you like to do now?” the gorillaasked. “I’d love to go to the cinema,” saidHannah. So they did.

Willy the Wimp” is a humorous story written by Anthony Browne, which will appeal to all children due to its wittiness and hidden meaning behind the story. Read this book in Spanish for Primary level. This book translates very well as it has simple sentences and the illustrations would really help the children to understand the story. The reader (along with Hannah) now learns that Dad really does think about his daughter. He has intuited that Hannah is fascinated with gorillas, and has planned exactly the birthday outing she has been dreaming about. He’s the sort of dad to hang Hannah’s pictures on the wall, framed. The young readers are left with the message that even when they feel that their caregivers don’t care about them, parents actually do love them, no matter what. This is a reassuring story: children will eventually receive the attention they crave.

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But the next day he was always too busy. “Notnow. Maybe at the weekend,” he would say.But at the weekend he was always too tired. Theynever did anything together. Look at the use of speech within the text. Could you rewrite the story as a play? Could you perform the play to others? There is no comfort in this house — not even a sofa to sit on, and no carpet. Notice the map of Africa on the wall — a part of Hannah’s imagination. The truly masterful part of this illustration is that the light coming out of the television turns the pattern on the wallpaper into butterflies. The light coming out of the television is Hannah’s only company — her only brightness in an otherwise dark home environment. The night before her birthday she asks for a gorilla and is suprise to find a stuffed toy as a present on her bed.

They both crept downstairs, and Hannah put onher coat. The gorilla punt on her father’s hat andcoat. “A perfect fit,” he whispered. This emotive and endearing book tells the humbling story of Hannah, a little girl, who wants nothing more but to spend quality time with her very busy father. Left to her own devices a lot of the time, Hannah spends her days reading about gorillas, watching gorillas on television and drawing pictures of gorillas. But she has NEVER seen a real gorilla!! Her father doesn’t have time to take her to the zoo; he doesn’t have time for anything! A feature of Anthony Browne’s work is that although the characters are depicted in almost naturalistic style, “in all styles we can only interpret faces with certainty as positive, negative or neutral in affect, with more subtle readings dependent on contextual and intermodal guidance. (Tian, 2011.) A Browne classic although not so much of the magical realism. This is a "think-positive tale", the humour coming from our empathy with the classic underdog, his caricature modesty and puniness when compared with the burly gorillas, his character staying the same despite his inflated muscles, and his ego crashing at the end when he he walks into the lamppost. Gorilla' is a short story about Hannah, a young girl who is obsessed with all things gorilla. The story implies that Hannah is from a single-parent family (although this is not mentioned explicitly) and whose father is always busy because of how hard he works. I don't want to spoil the story for you (because even as an adult, it's still a wonderful narrative), but Browne explores Hannah's fellings of loneliness, rejection and disappointment in the first part of the text. The second part of the text consists of a wonderful fantasy- classic childhood adventure material. The final part of the book is a happy ending of love and contentment.After days of being alone, eagerly waiting for the attention from her very busy father, Hannah's toy gorilla becomes real and takes her on an adventure to the zoo, the cinema, a restaurant and the evening ends with a dance on the lawn. To Hannah's surprise, her birthday wish comes true as her father is waiting to take her to the zoo the next morning! Look at the patterns in the picture of Hannah’s kitchen. Can you see any examples of tessellation / symmetry / right angles?



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