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These How the platypus got his shape prompts come with keywords from the story and are the perfect accompaniment to your storytelling lessons.

An assembly looking at Madagascar is perfect for showing the richness of our world and a great place for children to showcase their work.

Vanilla is one of the world’s best-loved flavours. We use it in everything from ice cream to skin cream. Madagascar is among the world's principal suppliers of this exotic spice but the life for the vanilla farmers in Madagascar is tough. Let’s investigate!

There’s a lot going on in the life of our little creature in A Grub’s Tale. We see how his life is a mystery to him and without a parent or brothers and sisters, he is worried and unsure of his future.

Ranjit has written a story about a kind tiger. Can the children help Ranjit improve his work?

A Trading Week or Enterprise Fair is a great way to encourage creativity and enterprise, as well as providing a valuable 'real-life' context for developing literacy and number skills.

Create an artefacts sheet for your school museum. 

Reading Ranjit’s Rainbow Tigers beautifully conjures up the sights and sounds of an Indian bazaar but what is it about the author’s writing that helps us to build the picture in our mind’s eye?

Ranjit's Rainbow Tigers playscript can be used for one-off activities, as it stands for class productions or rewrite it and make it your own!

Jo Bowers, senior lecturer in primary education, finds an ocean of critical thinking themes in Tao and the Kingdom of Pearls.