SuitabookA Wild Walk to School
Rebecca Cobb
- Reading
- Read the pictures slowly and invite the child to identify what belongs to the everyday journey and what belongs to the sisters’ imagination. Pause at each hazard rather than rushing towards the school gates.
- Themes
- Imagination within everyday life: The sisters experience the walk to school as a sequence of fantastical challenges while the adult sees a more ordinary route. The imaginative perspective is central and presented as vivid, creative and engaging rather than as a problem to solve.
- Different perspectives in a family: The mum urges the children to hurry and worries about time, while the sisters attend to their imagined adventure. Both perspectives are made recognisable: adult practicality and children’s absorbing imagination share the same journey.
- Worth knowing
- Some children may find the imagined hazards exciting or mildly alarming: being turned to stone, molten lava, a dangerous gulf and a sleeping giant are all part of the journey. The ending’s emotional effect is unclear.