SuitabookWiggling Words
Kate Rolfe
- Reading
- Read slowly and let the illustrations lead conversation. Name the frustration without treating it as failure, then explore how the child finds a personal route through letters and stories.
- Themes
- Reading difference and identity: The child experiences letters as unstable and reading as difficult; the book is shaped by the author’s dyslexic experience. Difference is treated as a lived experience with its own challenges, while the child retains imagination and agency.
- Perseverance and self-directed learning: The child moves from frustration towards discovering animals, a castle, a boat and a way through the letters. Persistence is presented as enabling discovery rather than requiring conformity to a single route into reading.
- Worth knowing
- The child’s frustration is shown vividly, including glowering, howling, tears and ripping the book. The imagery may merit a pause before the later shift towards imaginative possibility.