The Rhyming Rabbit

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I studied Drama and French at Bristol University, where I met Malcolm, a guitar-playing medic to whom I’m now married. I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs.

Central: tochtli, tochin Central Huasteca: koatochi, koatochij Classical: tochtli Western Huasteca: kuatochi I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books. Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܢܒ݂ܵܐ‎ m ( ārnwa ), ܟܸܪܘܝܼܫ‎ ( kirwīš ) Classical Syriac: ܐܪܢܒܐ‎ f ( ʾarnəḇā ), ܠܐܓܘܣ‎ m ( lāḡōs ) My real breakthrough was THE GRUFFALO, again illustrated by Axel. We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. After this Cakie wanted to add more objects to rhyme with those already in the box and went around the house looking for some to put in.Cantonese: 兔仔 ( tou 3 zai 2 ), 白兔 ( baak 6 tou 3 ) ( white rabbit ) Dungan: тўзы ( twzɨ ), тўр ( twr ) Mandarin: 兔子 (zh) ( tùzi ), 白兔 (zh) ( báitù ) ( white rabbit ) Min Nan: 兔仔 (zh-min-nan) ( thò͘-á ) This is a fun story about a rabbit who likes to make up rhymes about everything and anything! Unfortunately for him, his other rabbit friends find his incessant need to make up rhymes about everything incredibly irritating and keep telling him to stop doing it. Fewer and fewer people are eating rabbit and this has its reasons. … Rabbit meat was cheap and sometimes the only meat that would end up on people’s tables in a whole month. Rabbits then were fleshy, meaty and corpulent animals. Today’s pets are lean and cuddly and don’t invite you to put them on your plate. Does Sainsbury sell rabbit? Greek: κουνέλι (el) n ( kounéli ) Ancient: δασύπους m ( dasúpous ), λεβηρίς f ( lebērís ), ( Koine ) κούνικλος m ( koúniklos ) Hindi: ख़रगोश m ( xargoś ), शशक (hi) m ( śaśak ), सुस्सा ( sussā ), खरहा (hi) ( kharhā ), खरगोश (hi) m ( khargoś )

Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs - and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh. rabbit ( third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbited) To make learning more concrete and playful, we always like to make the activity using manipulatives and as playful as possible. We all learn best while touching, moving and doing, rather than looking at a worksheet or set of 2D images! Malay: arnab (ms), kelinci, kucing belanda, kuilu, tapai, terwelu Jawi: ارنب‎, کلينچي‎, کوچيڠ بلندا‎, کويلو‎, تاڤاي‎, ترويلو‎

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In the burrow he meets a worm and a mole but they too don’t appreciate his rhymes. It’s not until he digs his way out of the earth and into a field where he meets a friendly sheep that he finally finds a friend who likes rhymes as much as he does. The Rhyming Rabbit and the sheep spend the whole night and the next day making up new rhymes together. When he has to leave, the Rhyming Rabbit vows to return again the next day to see his new friend. They didn’t find it as easy as I had first thought they might, which means we will play this again until they are more familiar with the idea. I think this book would be a good book to read aloud to children in the early years and lower key stage one. There is a simple repetitive rhyme while the rabbit is digging the tunnel which allows for whole class participation and children to engage with poetry. In addition to this, the book could also be used to aid the learning of different animals in the early years.

I really liked this book due to the clever rhyming and captivating illustrations which make engagement with the book easy for young children.From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Middle French *robotte, *rabotte or Anglo- Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe, perhaps related to robbe ( “ seal ” ), itself of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben ( “ to rub ” ) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub. 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. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).