Lila and the Secret of Rain: 1

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This moving story combines a wonderful and touching fable with poetic prose not often found in children's books. This award-winning picture book tells with spare, elegant prose and poignant illustrations how Lila saves her Kenyan village by telling the sky the saddest thing she knows.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Your class will read through the sentences and highlight words that are homophones or they can choose the homophone that completes the sentences. This Starting Points resource will give you everything you need to plan a beautiful book-based unit of work for children in Year 1 and Year 2.At Books2Door, we believe that reading is a fundamental skill that every child should have to help improve their vocabulary, grammar, and critical thinking skills. Your class must include capital letters for: the beginning of sentences, opening speech and proper nouns. He has been awarded The Peter Pan Silver Star by the Swedish wing of the IBBY, a Parents' Choice Gold Award in the US as well as a Gelett Burgess Children’s Book Award for Lila and the Secret of Rain.

In this activity, we look at how Lila tries (and succeeds) at persuading the sky to stop the sun from shining and start the rain.With the added magic of folklore , the African setting sparks interest in our world’s diverse cultures . To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Your class will learn key information regarding evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection, begin to recognise the sequence and understand the importance of the water cycle for life on earth. Lila is so worried that when her grandfather whispers to her the secret of rain, she decides to go and talk to the sky herself.