Room on the Broom

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This favourite picture book is a real delight: an ingenious and humorous story with a rhythmical text that is ideal for reading aloud. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. The TV show is so well done that it outshines the book a bit, at least for someone who saw that first and read the book later. Then, without any judgment for the witch, it proceeds in a sing-song manner to show the witch including more and more friends with her as she flies. It is a thoroughly enjoyable book and I am now looking forward to reading “The Gruffalo” which is also by Donaldson and Scheffler.

He likes to mimic the dramatic, booming, Brian Blessed-esque voice I used for the ' down came the broom' line, around which each verse hinges. It rhymes, so there is a real flow - and my young follower, who was 6 easily supplied all the end words at the right points, which I thought was quite funny, because being a boy, he couldn't read, but he had more or less remembered every word of this book. We encourage educators to visit the Association for Library Service to Children’s resource guide for talking to children about issues of race and culture in literature. A witch and her cat are traveling one night on her broom when the wind picks up and blows away her hat, then her bow and then her wand. Throughout the tale, she encounters a series of other characters who each help the witch to recover various possessions that she loses along the way - but will there be enough room on the broom for them all?PBS Kids’ set of resources for talking to young children about race and racism might also be useful for educators. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise.

Students can consider why the witch continued to make room on her broom when there wasn’t really room. We're a family of witch fans and this book is so much fun to read and very exciting for my little boy. My 8 week old son loves this book it's his favourite story I think he seems to smile a lot when we are out and about I talk to him about the witch from the book and we talk about the whooosh of her broom stick and he smiles. Peter Fogarty has kindly contributed a set of Thinking Hat resources linked to the book (see Resources below).I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.

He was the illustrator for Julia Donaldson's first picture book, A Squash and a Squeeze - the start of a hugely successful partnership.This fun picture book by Julia Donaldson tells the story of a kind-hearted witch and her loyal cat flying through the night sky, when they bump into many colourful characters during their journey, who end up joining the broomstick. The repeated rhyming structure of the book makes it brilliant for children who are starting to gain confidence at reading aloud to an adult and would also be useful for whole class reading sessions in a foundation stage or Year 1 class, where the children could join in with the repetition. But at every stop they make a new friend, who wants to tag along, and the witch obliges, much to the chagrin of her cat! The repetition ensures it is accessible for small children and gives them the option of reading along in song or words.

But after a while, the wind starts playing havoc and every now and then, some thing or the other goes flying off the broom, which causes them to make many pit stops! It’s written in rhyme and accompanied by a large font which keeps the interest of the child but also allows them to read along with whoever they chose. Throughout the story Isla was alert and smiling, and seemed to thoroughly enjoy the rhyming words as she was kicking and waving her arms.The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand!