We’ve read Talon the Falcon, The Golden Eagle and The Paradise Flycatcher. How can we not read A Flamingo in My Garden?
The entire Feather Tales series is stunningly illustrated in full colour, and that is most certainly part of the charm. Like The Golden Eagle, A Flamingo in My Garden is a story within a story. Mitalee is delighted to see a flamingo in Rose Garden, and she watches as her favourite squirrel–whom she calls Snowdrop–and the birds chatter together. In that little circle of birds, the skybird Longtail tells the story of how Sunglow the flamingo found his way to Rose Garden. It’s a lovely story full of suspense and the universal theme of good versus evil.
Here’s what we will do as we read the book.
Words
The sea is called bigwater. Police-birds are skybirds. Terra-staan is the earth.
During author events on The Prophecy of Rasphora, I often do an activity where children make up Rasphoran words for various English words. Similarly, as we read A Flamingo in My Garden, we’ll make up words in a language of our own – not bird-language, perhaps, but perhaps pup-language or bug-language!
Bird Similes
We’ve worked on bird idioms several times; it’s time to work on bird similes. How many do we know? As wise as …? As happy as …? As proud as …? Let’s explore!
Freedom
Just like The Golden Eagle, A Flamingo in My Garden is a story about freedom. Especially as this is the first book we will be reading in August, it will be the perfect time to talk about independence and the freedom struggle. What does freedom mean to you? Can we work on a piece of guided writing based on the idea of freedom?
Come, read with us!
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