Gorilla

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Through this story, I was questioning a few things such as why is the father not talking to his child throughout the beginning book and where is the child’s mother. I was also wondering what the fathers job is as he works when the child is at school and he works at home. I was also wondering what happened at one section of the story as the child didn’t really have dinner it went from her sitting in her room to her then waking up after the dream I felt there was a chunk of the story missing and that there was more that was needing to be said. You’d better go in now, Hannah,” said the gorilla.“See you tomorrow.”“Really?” asked Hannah.The gorilla nodded and smiled. A Ana le encantan los gorilas. Sueña gorilas y dibuja gorilas, pero su papá nunca tiene tiempo para ir al zoológico. Cuando Ana le pide un gorila para su cumpleaños, ¡nunca imagina lo que el gorilita de peluche que le regalan es capaz de hacer! often contain narrative framing devices (e.g., stories within stories, characters reading about their own fictional lives) A lovely story about how a lonely and neglected girl living with her father finds comfort and joy in the thing she loves the most, gorillas!

One of the great aspect of being a parent is looking through the kids section and getting all nostalgic for so many books from my childhood.

Hannah, a young girl, absolutely adores gorillas. The posters in her room; the bedside lamp, the box of cereal, are all adorned with her favourite animal. She spends her time reading, drawing or watching programmes about them. She has yet to see one in the flesh. Hannah spends all of her time reading gorilla books, watching gorilla TV shows, and drawing gorilla pictures. She has gorillas on her bedside lamp This emotive and endearing book tells the humbling story of Hannah, a little girl, who wants nothing more but to spend quality time with her very busy father. Left to her own devices a lot of the time, Hannah spends her days reading about gorillas, watching gorillas on television and drawing pictures of gorillas. But she has NEVER seen a real gorilla!! Her father doesn’t have time to take her to the zoo; he doesn’t have time for anything! Look at the use of speech within the text. Could you rewrite the story as a play? Could you perform the play to others?

A feature of Anthony Browne’s work is that although the characters are depicted in almost naturalistic style, “in all styles we can only interpret faces with certainty as positive, negative or neutral in affect, with more subtle readings dependent on contextual and intermodal guidance. (Tian, 2011.) The next morning Hannah excitedly jumps out of bed, sprinting, to tell dad her news of her amazing journey. He approaches her “happy birthday love, do you want to go to the zoo?” The reader can instantly feel Hannah’s joy, she is glowing with happiness; her one wish has come true.Hannah loved gorillas. She read books aboutgorillas, she watched gorillas on television, andshe drew pictures of gorillas. But she had neverseen a real gorilla. Gordon Fraser became a close friend and taught me a lot about card design which was to prove very useful when I came to do children’s books. I experimented with many styles and many subjects from snowmen to dogs with big eyes to gorillas. I sent some of my designs to various children’s book publishers and it was through one of these that I met Julia MacRae who was to become my editor for the next 20 years. She taught me much of what I know about writing and illustrating children’s books. This was always one of my favourite books as a young reader and probably even before I could read it myself!

Flight of the Concords had spoofed this earlier, in their song I Told You I Was Freaky. Other Postmodern Picture Books urn:oclc:834148184 Scandate 20110829041657 Scanner scribe1.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition)The text itself features relatively complex sentance structures so is ideal to read to a very young child or great to use to develope the reading skills of a more accomplished reader.

Within the first part of the story Browne explores Hannah’s feelings of disappointment, loneliness and loss but the second part of the story is very magical and the reader is transported into an enchanted journey of happiness and love. Hannah would like nothing more than to spend time with her father; except he’s always working, “not now, I’m busy, maybe tomorrow” is the usual response. The disappointment, isolation and sadness Hannah feels immediately echoes with the reader. Of course, terrible caregivers do exist in real life. But they don’t tend to populate picture books. Even in the young adult category, truly terrible parents are extremely rare. The toy magically grows into a real life gorilla and adopts the father figure role by taking Hannah to all the places she'd hoped to visit.Although very sad at the beginning I found this story to be refreshingly honest and deeply gratifying.