Sharing a Shell

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Children can then expand on this to see what jobs there are within the UK and the World over and how they assist the people who live there. He joins crab and the anemone and they all live in one shell, working together, until one day the shell is no longer big enough for them all. Sharing A Shell tells the story of three rock pool creatures who share a shell and overcome their differences to live in harmony for the greater good. the pictures take up most of each page, which is good because there isn't much text, therefore perfect for younger children as they usually love to look at the pictures rather than the actual text. One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler.

Rationally one should overlook these things, but as a stickler for internal consistency it grates somewhat. They all go their separate ways and soon they begin to feel lonely and sad, until eventually they find a new, bigger shell that they can all share. Eventually they realise life is better when they are kind to each other and value each other's strengths, so a nice moral, as always. With sharing being difficult for children it is lovely how we get to see the crab facing the consequences of his decisions not to share and the children got to think about what they thought was the right thing for crab to do.Three friends, sharing a shell/ Happy as housemates can be/ Rocketing all round the rock pool/ In their wonderful home for three!

The cover gave a great starting discussion with the pupils, stimulating their imagination and comprehension. For yes and truly, Donaldson's rhyming text for Sharing a Shell is first and foremost fun, rollicking, song-like and delightfully provides an entertaining and brightly, colourfully illustrated by Lydia Monks story that provides for young children a great lesson regarding the importance of sharing and being good neighbours but without this ever feeling annoyingly didactic and patronising, and leaving in particular my inner child (even though I originally was kind of expecting considerably more realism in Sharing a Shell) broadly smiling and considering both Julia Donaldson's story and Lydia Monks' artwork sweetly fun and highly recommended to and for young children from about the age of three to six.This is a brilliant book that shows how friendships and sharing can be difficult but there's always a way to get through the problems, especially with friends by your side!

The thing that gets me every time with this story, is that as I read it (probably twice every day in a somewhat singsong style), Crab falls out with the other two because they are too *heavy*, but clearly that isn't the case because later on all three get back together in a bigger shell and there are no weight related issues. But life in the rock pool proves tougher than Crab thinks, and soon he finds he needs his new housemates in this rollicking story of sea, shells and friendship. I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married. With the lyrical and rhythmic verse we come to expect from her popular picture books, she tells a tale of friendship and collaboration.My children have a vast collection of Julia's books and love every single one of them, and I can see why. This book by the award-winning Gruffalo partnership is about a tiny snail who longs to see the world, and the enormous grey-blue humpback whale who gives him a lift on his tail. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise.

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. The illustrations are bright and eye catching for the children and they loved the glittery look and feel to the pictures.

Sharing a Shell uses rhyme to tell the story, this allows for children to explore the world of rhyme and start to look at how to use it themselves in writing.