AniMalcolm

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I enjoyed reading this book cause as I read it felt like I was actually in the book. My favourite character/animal was Malcolm when he was an ape. I would recommend this to a 7 year old. Malcolm is about to go a school trip (something he should be quite happy about as his parents really scraped together the money, but I can imagine that no boy is all too happy to have to spend days on a farm with stinky goat cheese), and on that trip he is going to discover that being an animal is more than it seems.

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Later on the book gets even more excited as a race against time starts and Malcolm has to ask all his friends to help him out.The title of chapter five is ‘The Last Present’. Could you use this as the title for your own story?

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Malcolm is a pretty fun character and I loved that he just wanted to know why he was alone in not liking animals, he kept pondering why everyone was loving it, yet he couldn't understand that love. This book is amazing and funny. Malcolm finds that sometimes the hardest thing is to become yourself. I enjoyed this book because Malcom is a good character. He really doesn't like animals and goes on a school trip to a farm!Retell the story (or part of it) from Malcolm’s point of view. You could choose the first chapter in which he receives his pet chinchilla. We cover cultural events, family days out, and eating out in Newcastle, Northumberland, Tyne and Wear, Durham, Teesside, as well as travel, short-breaks and holidays further afield. Stewart designs apps. Could you design an app that would be number one in the App Store? What features would it have? Who might use it? From David Baddiel, the brightest new star of children’s books and winner of the LOLLIES award, comes a laugh-out-loud adventure for every child who ever wondered what it might be like to be a bit of an animal… Say hello to Malcolm, he is our MC, and he doesn't like animals. He has his reasons, and I was nodding along, I could totally understand he may not be all that happy with animals. I understood his point that animals seemingly do nothing all day, just laze around, or do some weird animal thing. Of course, I am an animal fan myself, but I could still understand Malcolm's reasoning.

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Throughout the book you also see him change as he understands more and more about animals, as he makes friends with them, as he hears their stories, as he sees just what they do for him. Chapter five ends with a cliffhanger because Malcolm doesn’t know where his school trip will take him. Can you find cliffhangers in other stories? Can you use these as ideas for cliffhangers in your own stories? It does make him think differently. And speak differently. And eat differently. And, um, smell differently. But will he end up the same as before? Teaching Ideas and Resources: English Malcolm’s family have lots of pets. Create a set of instructions to teach people how to look after a particular pet. These could be written instructions, a radio report or a video tutorial that could be posted online. We started out taking it in turns to read this book aloud to one another and while my son instantly loved it, I was a little unsure. There are a number of footnotes which include funny anecdotes or explanations, and it makes for somewhat stilted reading. We then decided we would read the book quietly to ourselves instead to see if that was better in and it was.The only bright spot on the horizon is the Year Six school trip, which Malcolm never thought his parents would pay for. And yet there he is, on the bus, heading to… oh no. A farm. Over the next days, Malcolm changes. He learns a lot about animals. More, in many ways, than he would like. He learns what it’s really like to be an animal. A whole series of animals, in fact…