What our educators thought

“This book was a lovely story to challenge children’s perceptions about others. The changing relationship between the young boy and his elderly neighbour opened up lots of conversations between the pupils, with lots of them quite shocked about their original viewpoints. The format of this book was really accessible and all of the children said that they enjoyed reading a book with colourful pictures which they do not often get to read! They also commented on how the story had lots of depth even though there was not lot of text to read which they really enjoyed. We mapped our emotions throughout the story and talked about how our emotions changed a lot through this story. We then talked about whether we would consider this a happy story or a sad story! Trigger warnings – death of a pet.”

This Book Club also took part in some EmpathyLab activities. Try them out, here.

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