Beegu

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Inspiring children’s creative writing, they can describe and create the planet where Beegu originates and describe new planets Beegu can discover with her friends. I love the scene where she is reunited with her parents and she retells her experiences in her special language, the pictographs are great in her speech bubble. This story was requested again and again and again at bedtime and I never grew tired of this baby alien’s adventure.

Beegu and Jitterbug Jam, both of which he illustrated, were named as New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of the Year. The images of Beegu are a great aid to the readers in seeing just how different Beegu is and why he is having such difficulty in our world making friends. We loved the positive message that children generally accept differences more easily than adults and are more adaptable to change. I love how the children and puppies in this story are so welcoming to Beegu and it’s a big part of this story how the adults are not so welcoming. I am likely to remember Beegu and sad that I’m one of the oldsters Beegu will not make a point of fondly remembering.She is scared, lonely and confused and begins to wander around the near by city in hope to find some friends to care for her. These questions could be explored with the class a discussion and/or as an opportunity for the class to create their own narrative for the reasons behind these remaining puzzles. The beautifully simplistic illustrations convey a lot of emotion, and children and adults alike will be able to interpret when Beegu is happy and sad.

The cutest story book teaching children about acceptance as Beegu (the little alien character) becomes stranded on earth. But at last, on a school playground, Beegu discovers a group of fantastic companions who are happy to let her join their games . Alexis Deacon is one of Book Trust's ten Best New Illustrators, and Beegu was a New York Times Book Review Best Illustrated Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Kate Greenaway Medal. There are some questions which are left unanswered as a reader such as “Why didn’t any of the people on the street seem to notice Beegu, particularly when she didn’t seem to be of their world?Her mother finds her and, again, another wonderful illustrations shows little Beegu reunited with her parents. When a little alien named Beegu - who looks rather like a three-eyed yellow rabbit, with long floppy ears - crash lands on Earth, she has trouble making herself understood by the locals, who seem either indifferent or unfriendly. But the only friendly people she comes across are the children, while the big Earth creatures just don’t seem to understand. The Story centres around an Alien coming to Earth and finding it difficult to find a place to fit in; with everywhere he goes, he is turned away and rejected. Along with The Doll's House by Rumer Godden, this child's picture book demonstrates the aristotelian concept of "catharsis" as well as any other work of drama/fiction I've encountered, and shows exactly how powerful children's literature can be.