Ned the hedgehog is looking for a home in the cold, dark forest. He needs somewhere warm and cosy to sleep, but all he keeps finding are other creatures’ homes: rabbits’, foxes’, owls’, bats’. Will he ever find a snug safe bed of his own? This beautiful book is written and illustrated by award-winning author
Ned the hedgehog is looking for a home in the cold, dark forest. He needs somewhere warm and cosy to sleep, but all he keeps finding are other creatures’ homes: rabbits’, foxes’, owls’, bats’. Will he ever find a snug safe bed of his own? This beautiful book is written and illustrated by award-winning author and illustrator Tim Hopgood. * Yellow/Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language * Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. * A map of the forest on pages 14-15 shows Ned’s journey and all the animals he encounters along the way. * Curriculum links: Knowledge and understanding of the World
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Simple, but very versatile A slim book, just twelve pages long, with one short sentence per page. Ned the Hedgehog is looking for a place to hibernate, and encounters rabbits, a fox, owls and bats before discovering a perfect pile of leaves. The illustrations are suitably dark and mysterious (but not scary) and the language is delightfully repetitive, so even very young children can join in and early readers can follow the story for themselves. This makes the book suitable, I would suggest, for children from about 2…
Short and sweet Weâre huge fans of Tim Hopgoodâs books, but have been a little disappointed by this rather short offering. Ned is a very likeable hedgehog on a journey to find somewhere to hibernate, but I feel even my 2 year old wanted the story to expand further. I think it may come in to its own when heâs a bit older and can add his own imagination and interpretation to the story though, hence the overall positive 4 star review.
Super tale of Ned the hedgehog! Ideal autumn/winter themed book for my EYFS group. Very simple and short story line with repeating phrases and lots of lovely sensory opportunities to make it motivating and exciting.