On Monday morning, Teresa Heapy came into school to help us celebrate World Book Day. We had a whole school assembly and she read one of her books, Very Little Red Riding Hood to us and answered some of our questions.
Later, just year 3 and 4 went into the hall with Teresa Heapy and she read another one of her books to us; Very Little Cinderella. We had the chance to discuss the differences with the original and Teresa’s version. It included children, rather than adults, Cinderella lost a yellow wellie instead of a glass slipper and they played happily at the end.
Teresa also talked about the illustrator of her books, Sue Heap and showed us some of her rough sketches and drawings.
We also got to ask Teresa some questions; Thomas S asked what her favourite non-fiction book was and Teresa said it was Who Eats Who, as it was quirky and funny. Thomas L asked when she first started writing books and Teresa said about 30 years ago! Shenyar asked how many books she’d written and she said about 90! Taylor asked which was her favourite book and she said Loved To Bits as it is about her son’s teddy bear.
In the class, we got to design and draw our own ‘Very Little’ character, we shared some ideas first, which included Ladybug, The Gruffalo, Goldilocks, Ana and Elsa, Matilda, Mario, Moana, Happy Potter, Snow White , Sonic and Paddington.
It was fantastic – thank you Teresa for a great morning!