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It would also be a great book to practise using different expressions and voices to suit the range of different characters.
We work separately - he’s in London and I’m in Glasgow - but he sends me letters with lovely funny pictures on the envelopes. A kind witch invites a surprising collection of animals to join her on her broom, much to the frustration of her cat. Some of the books on this site may contain characterizations or illustrations that are culturally insensitive or inaccurate.He likes to mimic the dramatic, booming, Brian Blessed-esque voice I used for the ' down came the broom' line, around which each verse hinges.
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Sometimes I read him a different book and he cries if I change the book to this one he lays and listens to me read it. The unlikely group of a cat, dog, bird and frog form a great alliance as the continue to help the witch and continue their travels together.
Students can consider why the witch continued to make room on her broom when there wasn’t really room. Here is a picture of me acting the witch in our stage show “The Gruffalo, the Witch and the Warthog”.Create another page for the book, on which a new animal finds something else that the witch has dropped. The witch and her cat are happily flying through the sky on a broomstick when the wind picks up and blows away the witch's hat, then her bow, and then her wand! They all fall to the ground, and the witch encounters a big, red, terrifying dragon who wants to eat her. This favourite picture book is a real delight: an ingenious and humorous story with a rhythmical text that is ideal for reading aloud. The gang ultimately saves the witch from a fearsome dragon, and in gratitude she rewards them with a magnificent new broom which has room for everyone.