Dear Fellow
Rappers
Isn't this fun? We compared
Annie’s family with the bear family. The first difference is one is a bear
family and the other is a human family. There are two children in Annie’s family
and they have pets. Annie is the youngest member in the family, Baby Bear is the
smallest in his family. Annie’s family is happy like Baby Bear’s but Annie’s
brother Jack causes her some problems especially when he wants to sit on her
chair.
The bright colours in the
story are happy colours and we noticed cheerful daisies on the end papers and on
the front cover.
We loved the part where
Annie was “boiling mad”. Deborah Niland (wrote and illustrated the book) has
drawn Annie’s eyes big, the eyebrows crooked, she is frowning with her arms
crossed. We can see and feel she is cross.
Both books had some hints.
If you look carefully you will see a small part of the chair and Benny’s tail.
This is like the giraffe shadow, the koala on the stairs, the bat towel, the
crocodiles and bears hidden in the tiles and the mouse bedhead in Kisses for
Daddy.
We decided the chair is
almost a character in the story.
Benny is very important in
the story, so important he nearly fills a doublespread picture all by himself.
The only time we meet Annie’s mum, she is relaxing and reading the paper just
like Mrs Bear who was reading a book.
On the last pages of both
books there is a happy, ‘together’ feeling. Annie with Benny and Baby Bear with
Daddy.
the still no-name
rappers
