The audio version, voiced by Josie Lawrence, which includes the Room on the Broom song, won the Spoken Book Award for the best audio for 6 and under. Unfortunately, the witch’s broom breaks in mid air under the weight of its passengers and they face the danger of being eaten by a hungry dragon. But after a while, the wind starts playing havoc and every now and then, some thing or the other goes flying off the broom, which causes them to make many pit stops! In 2019, the Prindle Institute partrnered with Thomas Wartenberg and became the digital home of his Teaching Children Philosophy discussion guides.

From former Children's Laureate Julia Donaldson and longtime collaborator Axel Scheffler comes this much-loved tale about a witch and her gang of friends. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. He likes to mimic the dramatic, booming, Brian Blessed-esque voice I used for the ' down came the broom' line, around which each verse hinges.We want a song about throwing crumpled-up wrapping paper into the bin” was a typical request from the BBC. Peter Fogarty has kindly contributed a set of Thinking Hat resources linked to the book (see Resources below). Anyone with small children (and older ones too, I'm sure) will be familiar with Julia Donaldson, in particular The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which - along with Room on the Broom - have been made into animated films that regularly show on the ABC. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone.

Disaster strikes after a while, when the broomstick snaps in half under the weight of several new passengers collected along the way, and the witch finds herself face to face with a very hungry dragon! The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand!

Throughout the tale, she encounters a series of other characters who each help the witch to recover various possessions that she loses along the way - but will there be enough room on the broom for them all? As things stand it is a blast to read with my daughter and much to my delight she really enjoys it as well. Some of the books on this site may contain characterizations or illustrations that are culturally insensitive or inaccurate. Read the description of the ‘horrible beast’ that rises from the ditch and use it to draw the creature.

Julia Donaldson is another children's author I find myself gravitating towards whenever I'm looking for a new picture book - between her, Alison Lester, Mem Fox, Oliver Jeffers and a few others, you're never short of titles to consider! There is very descriptive use of words for the characters in the book, particularly when describing the horrible and frightful beast. Here is a picture of me acting the witch in our stage show “The Gruffalo, the Witch and the Warthog”.The illustrations are magnificently sharp and colourful and again allow the child to actively take part in the story and question what may or may not happen next. Her new friends save her, she makes a spell for a new broomstick, and off they go again - in style and comfort this time. So yes, indeed, I have been very much pleasantly surpised by Julia Donaldson's presented verses in her utterly delightful Room on the Broom. Sometimes I read him a different book and he cries if I change the book to this one he lays and listens to me read it. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes.

This is a charming children's book, filled with fun rhymes, funny pictures and an overall charming atmosphere.We love the rhyming in and my little girl (10 months) loves it if you put on different accents for the different characters and do the sound effects too. There's also a comfort aspect at play - the same can be said of authors like Alison Lester, who do their own illustrations and also have a distinctive style. As one of the largest collegiate ethics institutes in the country, the Prindle Institute for Ethics’ uniquely robust national outreach mission serves DePauw students, faculty and staff; academics and scholars throughout the United States and in the international community; life-long learners; and the Greencastle community in a variety of ways. She lives in Glasgow and spends a lot of time on stage performing her brilliant sell-out singalong shows! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old.