I would thoroughly recommend this book for both its Art and Design and Literacy content, it is a really inspiring and imaginative read. The layout and design is all over the place making it difficult to follow but a different experience that may attract some children's eye. There is a view from a chair, spider, dog and more. The story also shows great examples of personification with household objects and insects giving their own perspectives of the days events. It is a diary from different perspectives from the same day. This is a great way of modelling how to write a diary entry using level 3 vocabulary, connectives, openers and punctuation. All the entries intertwine and there is a surprise ending. The story is composed as several diary entries from a girl called Lucy, a chair, a spider, a firefly, knife and fork, a dog named Bubu, and a ladybug. Perceived ‘easy’ read diary stories tend to read like conversation or dialogue and will attract reluctant or struggling readers. The first is straightforward enough it is the account of a young girl called Lucy. There are seven different diaries in Dear Diary, each telling the events of one busy day from a different point of view. I have always valued the Art and Design aspect of the illustrations, over the content of the story however, I recently realised what a good text this could be for use in KS1 and even early KS2 literacy. An extraordinary fictional diary by a great picture book artist. Every page has tiny details which would look fantastic enlarged on the visualiser. As Greg says in his diary, Just dont expect me to be all Dear Diary this. Sara Fanelli's use of collage and the graphical layout of the pages really make this story visually captivating, even the end pages are covered in doodles and writing that make you feel as if you are peering in to her world. Author/illustrator Jeff Kinney recalls the growing pains of school life and. I have loved this book for many years now.
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