duffy
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20 November 2008
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This story is basically about someone making the decision to follow their dreams, and children often realise that this is the message that the story is giving them.
I have used it on many occasions for drama, and children enjoy holding out an imaginary blanket to Lumpty and offering advice "Be brave Lumpty", "You'll be ok". They can relate to it because most children know the story of Humpty Dumpty and obviously don't want Lumpty to fall.
Take this a stage further and ask children to make egg catchers. For this I stopped at the stage where the old man asks "How can we save him?" and asked the children to design and make ways to save Lumpty. As an aside, we really did drop eggs into the egg catchers with varying degrees of success and lots of mess. If you try this, make sure you have plenty of newspaper!!
Apart from it being a great book for a range of follow up activities, it's a lovely story book. Even very young children enjoy the pictures and the story. Little Miss truly believes that Humpty Dunpty is Lumpty's grand dad and the first time she heard the story, worried that he might not get off the wall.
I think this is a lesser known book, but well worth reading if you get a copy.
It has excellent pictures which complement the text perfectly and the egg people are great"¦ whole range of emotions cross their little egg faces!
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