Sharing a Shell

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Sharing a Shell is a brightly and well illustrated book, having a lovely story of friendship which leads children (and adults) to read it over and over again.

When Crab finds a new shell, he doesn’t want to share it with anyone – especially not a blobby purple anemone and a tickly bristleworm. This can be expanded upon to explore the different communities children live in and how/if they work to make a nice environment to live in.My children have a vast collection of Julia's books and love every single one of them, and I can see why. But no, I am also and definitely not in any way insinuating that Sharing a Shell absolutely requires such an author's note. With brilliant rhythmic verse, bright and distinctive illustrations, this is a firm favourite with children and parents alike.

They all go their separate ways and soon they begin to feel lonely and sad, until eventually they find a new, bigger shell that they can all share. After finding a shell and teaming up with an anemone and a bristleworm, crab learns that when faced with the challenges a stormy sea throws at him he is better off with his new friends than on his own. Sharing a Shell is a charming underwater tale of friendship and fun from the stellar picture book partnership of Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks, creators of What the Ladybird Heard.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. It's a lovely tale about not sharing and going their separate ways, however neither of the two are happy, they're extremely lonely. Sharing shell is a story about a crab who finds a new shiny shell but doesn't want to share it with an anemone and a bristle worm. I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married.

It is about three creatures living by the sea in a rock-pool who struggle to share their living spaces. Sharing a Shell is a lovely story about a hermit crab who when he finds a nice new shell decides he doesn't want to share it with his friends but soon discovers it is a lot easier when you're friends are there to help you. The characters the story introduces shows that everyone is individual and when working as a team a lot can be achieved. Told with Donaldson's trademark rhyme and wit, this encourages children that it's better to share than be shellfish (sorry). But after a period of time a bigger shell is once again needed, and while at first the hermit carb, sea anemone and bristleworm squabble amongst themselves and end up going their separate ways, at the end of Sharing a Shell, the bristleworm finds a new and larger shell, and crab, sea anemone and bristleworm once again move in together.You know you’re in for a treat when a book has a glittery front cover and ‘Sharing A Shell’ by Julia Donaldson doesn’t disappoint. It has some lovely lessons about tolerance and sharing, two qualities which, as we all know, come as second nature to toddlers.