Lost in the Toy Museum: An Adventure

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I love the character of Bunting, the sensible and rather boring old toy cat, who lets his hair (or should that be fur ? The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. One day Halibut Jackson receives an invitation from the Queen to a party at the palace and starts work on his most ambitious outfit yet, a bejewelled suit of silver and gold, which he thinks will go unnoticed amid the splendours of the palace. In a geography lesson, a mapping lesson could be linked to the story of Buntings experience in following the clues the toys leave to lead him to their location. Bunting, the old toy cat, has appointed himself the leader and has them lining up for inspection, checking their stitching and getting them to do exercises.The story is about how the toys in the museum come to life at night and decide to play hide and seek. This could also be a good way to introduce adjectives, where children could identify their favourite toy or character and describe them. David Lucas is the internationally acclaimed author/illustrator of Peanut, The Lying Carpet, Halibut Jackson, Whale, Nutmeg and The Robot and the Blue Bird. It could be used as a basis for many aspects of ks1 or 2 such as story telling ,use of alliteration ,Bethnal Green background and igniting children's imagination with hide and seek story .

In this magical adventure story the reader is given a glimpse of the 'what-if' world as the adventures of Bunting and his fellow friends at the toy museum through the typical childhood game of 'Hide-and-Seek' is played out in the book. The children will be introduced a planning document, they will plan their ideas for writing a simple news report about the ‘Missing Toys’. By submitting a review you grant us the right to display and use it in any way; please read our General Legal Notices for full details. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. We have shared adjectives to describe a characters feelings as well as exploring different verbs to describe what the toys are doing.

Until one night the toys decide to play a game of hide and seek with him and he sets off on his own adventure to find them. In 2008 he was chosen as one of BookTrust's Best New Illustrators, as part of their Big Picture initiative. Shortly after graduating from The Royal College of Art, he illustrated a picture book by Ted Hughes and began writing picture book stories of his own. Before you begin reading the story there is a page containing illustrations of all that characters and their names. His stories are a mix of fairytale and autobiography, and his aim in all his work is to communicate his belief that the world is a magical place.

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Follow the adventures of Bunting, an old toy cat, and his friends at the museum who come to life when the lights go out. As he follows the trail of clues through the museum, the normally reserved Bunting learns how to have fun in this affectionate picture book from one of Britain's brightest new talents. YOu ccould use the story for inspiration to create a Toy Fact File using one of the characters from this EYFS/KS1 picture book. His most recent picture book is Attack of the Giant Baby, illustrated by Bruce Ingman - the only book he has written but not illustrated. The toys at the museum come alive after the lights go off and have adventures, apart for old Bunting who likes to take care of the other toys and teach them the history of the museum.