SOS Children's Villages

the sequence of the tricks that Cat in the Hat did when he got to Sally’s house. Discussions are also great to have about strangers, being left home alone, and what is allowed inside the house. Manners and conduct is another important lesson to kids so they know right from wrong. Also, to have a clear understanding that trick that are seen can’t always be done at home. Having the students search for sight words is beneficial to expand their vocabulary. Math can even be incorporated to the lesson…

The Caterpillar as a Teacher A Lewis Carroll’s book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has fascinated me since I was a little child. Now, as an (almost) grown-up, I keep discovering additional layers and ever fresh important messages, new insights, and wisdom hidden in it. My intent in this work is to shed some new light–also relying upon the foremost commentaries on the subject–on the significance of Alice’s encounter with the Caterpillar. Alice encounters the Caterpillar when she has already had…

In the Children’s literature of fantasy, the process of self-discovery and the identity formation is the dominant part of the story. In both Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Roald Dahl’s The Witches, the reality is cautiously constructed to help children with their biggest fear of growing up. Transformation can be found in many different forms, Alice and The Boy experienced both biological changes and psychological changes. Their changes and reaction towards the…

The original fairy tale “Little Red Riding Hood” by the Brothers Grimm and “The Girl, The Wolf, The Crone,” by Kellie Wells have many similarities and differences throughout the stories. However, Kellie Wells takes a different approach to the story; she takes the story and uses symbols to let the reader know what she feels about the Catholic religion. The original story is not based on religion. It is simply telling a story about a girl who visits her grandmother, who was eaten by a wolf, but…

these pages can be recognized in fairy tales, history itself and also in the modern world. They are timeless, relevant and take us to places never visited before. Lean in close, lend a listening heart and go where the forests and rivers take your soul so that your spirit may be open to seeing beyond the imagined limitations that are right in front of your eyes. The following tale…

time period to be covered more broadly. When only a single panel is used on a page, the mood of the scene is very clear to identify. For example, the panel on page 77 features a happy mood. This is clear because the image is much larger than others so you get a good look at what is going on in the scene. Moreover, this helps to demonstrate her struggle growing up during the Islamic Revolution. Experiencing political unrest took away a lot of things we may get to have living in America. She was…

uses the habit of mind , "Gathering data through all senses" to reach this goal. Eoin Colfer was, and still is a great author.He gave this world some of the greatest children's books and is still writing them.He is currently making an Artemis Fowl movie! "Artemis Fowl" was one of the best book series he ever made, and now he is writing books in the…

Taste in film is a very personal thing and can say more about a person than they can say about themselves. For example, if someone were to glance through my movie collection, they would learn a lot more about me than with any journal or scrapbook that could be kept. Even I can see more of myself contained in these plastic cases than I can in old photographs. Revisiting old favorites jogs memories that probably never eves made it into an elementary school English assignment. Early in life I was…

Tony Abbott grew up with books in the house, as he has two parents who taught. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio with a brother was a great reader, and his father always wrote so the clicking keys of his father's typewriter made for the background music of Tony's childhood. The most important thing to know about the man is that he loves reading and books. He has learned a lot from all the books he has read and his library of books is quite vast. When he was eight, his dad got a job as a professor,…

Theodor Seuss Geisel, otherwise known as Dr. Seuss, was born on March 2, 1904. He grew up in Springfield, Massachusetts. Despite all the teasing, he still drew his funny creatures. He has written many famous children’s books. Dr. Seuss was one of the most creative and unique authors in history. Theodor Geisel was a very creative man. Ted started drawing the creatures at a young age as weird versions of the animals in Springfield Zoo where his father worked. He would go to the zoo after school…