SuitabookThe ice cream factory
Laurel Colless
- Reading
- Pause to talk through what the characters know about the factory’s smoke and what they hope a new energy solution might change. Keep the difference between a proposed fix and a proven result clear.
- Themes
- Clean energy and environmental action: Smoke from the factory’s old generators worsens the air and makes children cough. Chu tries to persuade the board to try a new energy solution. The book presents this favourably.
- Finding confidence to persuade: Chu is the day’s leader and must find confidence to persuade the grown-ups on the factory board. Chu’s effort to speak persuasively is framed as a central and constructive part of the adventure.
- Worth knowing
- Smoke from the old generators makes the air bad and causes children in the story to cough. This brings pollution and its effects on children directly into the adventure.