Walk This Wild World

We use 'One Night, Far From Here' by Julia Wauters as one of our KS1 English reading, writing and topic units - 'Walk This Wild World' would be a superb complement book to use along side this unit of work. Each page within this book encounters a different location across the world. A small poem describes the animals that would be found there and there are lots of engaging lift the flap fact pictures add masses of description to accompany it. I would really enjoy recreating a book like this with children in my class and I think all the different animals build a wealth of information to reasearch. The book is illustrated beautifully and would engage and excite the readers. All the poetry verses use excellent descriptive language and are fabulous stimuli to encourage children with their own creative writing in class. I think this book alone would be a fabulous focus for a animal based topic, and would create many strands on which to hang curriculum objectives. I think it could be linked in really well with a zoo or safari park visit, and that a huge amount of cross curricular linked planning could result from working with this book. I'd highly recommend this text and will be using it as an additional text for future world geography topics. 24 pages / Ages 5+ / Reviewed by Marie Berry, teacher.

Suggested Reading Age 5+