Class Two at the Zoo

As I was reading this book silently to myself about halfway through it I found myself reading the book aloud. This doesn’t usually happen to me when reading, but Jarman has written this book in a way that has to be read aloud. The rhyming sentences would be perfectly suited to reading to a school cl......more

Read with my year 1 class today as Julia Jarman is visiting our school soon. This went down quite well. Children liked the pictures but did not enjoy this quite as much as some other books they have read recently. 'I like how it rhymes' 'They look gross after the snake bit' 'It isn't as good as The Lio......more

This picture book inspired by the children of Sturminster Marshall in Dorset is ingeniously clever. For children at Letters & Sounds Phonics stages 5, 6 or beyond, this apparently simple, yet cautionary tale of a school class' trip to the zoo could work wonders: we are presented on every double-page......more

Julia was born in March in 1948. She studied English and Drama at Manchester University and became a qualified teacher. She is a British author of books for children of all reading ages and ability. Her first book was published in 1985 “When Poppy Ran Away”. This is a story about a teacher bringing h......more

This is a story about a teacher bringing her class two to the zoo. The children are so wrapped up on looking at “hippos hoping in the mud” and “monkeys eating chocolate pud” that they don’t realise the anaconda is following them and gobbling up their classmates one by one and then their class teache......more