Title: Roll Up, Roll Up, Clean Up – Taking Responsibility
by: Penny Harris
illustrated by: Winnie Zhou
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing
An innovative, award-winning series helping children develop social and emotional well-being”. Selected for the Victorian Department of Education and Training’s School Readiness Funding Menu for 2020.
Roll Up, Roll Up, Clean Up – Taking Responsibility
Ginnie & Pinney and their friends are discussing spring-cleaning when they notice a bad smell coming from the Koala’s house. The friends have to intervene. Teaching the koalas to clean their house is a lot of fun, but when the friends leave, have the koalas learnt anything?
Author, Penny Harris, has spotlighted an important issue relevant yesterday, today and in the future – taking responsibility. The characters in the story discover a bad smell coming from the koalas’ house and confront them about it. They each pass the buck dodging their responsibility. But then the friends all get together and help each other out. But is it enough?
One particular aspect that I liked about the story is how each characters’ thoughts, feelings and point of view is expressed, discussed and how they decide together what the solution for the problem is, showing children how to communicate and to focus on the problem at hand together as a team.
Artist, Winnie Zhou, has used facial expressions on the characters well to show the feelings of the characters so that children can see the emotion as well as read about it.
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Teacher Notes: https://www.bigskypublishing.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/G-P-Roll-Up-Roll-Up-Clean-Up-Teachers-Notes.pdf
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Title: Roll Up, Roll Up, Clean Up – Taking Responsibility
by: Penny Harris
illustrated by: Winnie Zhou
Publisher: Big Sky Publishing http://www.bigskypublishing.com.au/
ISBN: 9781922265791
Subject: Children, Learning,
Pages: 32
This book was given to Julieann by Big Sky Publishing for review
Reviewed by Julieann Wallace
(Dip T, B. Ed, Author, Illustrator, Tea Ninja, Cadbury Chocolate Annihilator)
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