Notice how each tile of the roof is clearly defined and individually drawn. Cylindrical form is given to the milk pails by horizontal, well-defined lines. Rosie’s feathers are ornamental. To off-set all of this ornamentation, it was a good choice to make use of white space for the ground and sky — a popular choice in similar styles of work. (See Mercer Mayer’s early work. Later he seems to have either grown tired of the ornamental style or discarded it when switching to digital, as his ornamental line turns into air-brushed fills which have more obviously been digitally rendered.) Perry Nodelman points out the paradox that both intensely patterned and intensely disrupted visual surfaces convey relatively less narrative information, and that a book such as Rosie’s Walk verges on the merely decorative. Students, in the role of Debugger, modify the coded instructions as needed to help the Controller get Rosie through the maze to her home. So-called realistic art inevitably implies an attitude of scientific objectivity. We assume that folk art is pleasant and harmless and so respond to the theoretical danger of Rosie’s Walk as pleasant and harmless. Perry Nodelman, Words About Pictures

questions or comments initiated by the students about maps, patterns, or sequences. Discuss using questions such as: It was 3pm; my walk had taken two and a half hours. As I sat in the bar, I could not help but reflect on my first meeting with Laurie, 25 years earlier. At one point in our conversation his thoughts turned to the history of the area. “My village, Slad, didn’t have much history,” he reflected, almost regretfully. I know what he meant. Slad was never the setting for the great battles that shaped England’s destiny, or the location of the fine houses of its kings and queens. Its history is altogether more modest. It’s woven like a tapestry through the stories of its families, its houses, its fields, its buildings and, of course these days, though he would never have admitted as much, through the life of Laurie Lee himself. For example, here are some passages from Language and Ideology in Children’s Fiction by John Stephens: An Example Of Irony In Picturebooks This is a tenet that has become deeply ingrained in children’s literature, especially in fantasy, and must be seen as an element motivating the recent genre of pessimistic realism. It is already being learned from Rosie’s Walk. Rosie simply passes through her world in quiet self-absorption and unknowingly avoids its major threat. Her escape may seem merely a matter of chance, and she herself may seen incredibly stupid, which offers one way of reading her obliviousness to danger. B What are some of the words that describe how Rosie went from place to place?” (e.g., across, past, through, over.)Did you need to make any changes to the maze as you created the code for Rosie to follow? Why did you need to make the change?” There is so much that is special about Swift’s Hill. It’s home to a host of rare chalk plants, including no fewer than 14 different species of orchid. There is archaeological evidence of continuous settlement on the hill dating from the stone age: that sense of continuity was as important to Laurie as the inordinate beauty of the natural landscape. Just beyond Elcombe the path leaves the road and follows a route through the steep slopes of the Laurie Lee Wood nature reserve. This ancient woodland was once owned by Laurie and acquired by the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust from his family in 2013. It’s lovely woodland at any time of the year, though spring is exceptional, as you might stroll through carpets of bluebells or clusters of the rare orchid, white helleborine. I had a robin for company. What did you learn about programming from this?” (e.g., it takes a lot of practice to give clear and detailed instructions the first time.) The story told in the pictures is not the same as that told in the words – all the humour and excitement is in the pictures making this a great book for introducing children to reading pictures as well as a classic example of picture and words working together to create a deeply satisfying story.

What are some of the changes you needed to make in the Programmer’s code so that the Controller could get Rosie home for lunch? Why do you think these problems happened?” Read the story again and leave spaces for children to join in with the story. They can add their own responses to the dramatic events. Tell the storyLiteracy: These Word Cards are brilliant for adding to children’s vocabulary growth, through word and image recognition. There’s also Story Sequencing cards to strengthen children’s knowledge around events and plot stages. What is Rosie’s Walk? Students, in the role of Controller, follow the directions laid out by the Programmer to take Rosie through the maze to her home. Comedians call this gag set up and payoff. See also: A Taxonomy of Humour In Children’s Stories. COMPARE WITH

This book is great for working on positional words. The activities below will reinforce this vocabulary Rosie’s Walk Activities That’s how it felt to me as I moved on, crunching along the frosty path, past an old apple orchard. The path took me through what had once been the farmyard, then left up the lane to a crossroads. I turned right, following the road as it dropped and swept round to the tiny hamlet of Elcombe. There was smoke drifting upwards from fires burning in the hearths of cottages; the cottagers, I imagined, huddled cosily around them. Our fabulous Rosie’s Walk activities expands throughout the entirety of the seven key areas of learning and development in the EYFS.I stopped to take a look. It was now so cold that my toes and fingers were beginning to feel numb and I could see my breath clearly. It was this intense, bone-chilling, winter weather that inspired some of Laurie’s early poetry, especially for a poem commissioned by the BBC in the early 1940s, in the depths of a freezing cold winter of war. Christmas Landscape begins: Much of the fun of Rosie’s Walk is the fact that the pictures come in pairs. In each pair, the f irst picture shows the fox about to get himself into physical difficulty, and the second shows the result of the movement forward implied by the first. ut nevertheless her implicit passivity may also represent a chosen quietude, and hence an ideological construct crucial for how we think about society and for how we envisage engagement with it or separation from it. Either way, it is an ideological issue that cannot simply be ignored. Repeated Patterns Offer Comfort To Offset The Danger

How is your perspective on the tabletop grid (i.e., top-down” or “bird’s eye” perspective) different from your perspective on the floor grid? How does this change how you think about the directions you will be giving?” You said you thought this path would make it harder for Rosie to get home again. Why do you think that?” Take a classic public domain poem or nursery rhyme and imagine how the narrative might be completely different if you were to change the:After hearing the story a few times, children will get to know it well. Encourage them tell it to you in their own words, with some words or phrases from the story, using the pictures to help them. Things to make and do Storyplay