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OUR LATEST FOCUS BOOK – PATTAN’S PUMPKIN

Pattan’s Pumpkin, Chitra Soundar, Frané Lessac (illus)

Chitra Soundar, Frané Lessac (illus)
Otter Barry Books
Age 5-7
Pattan is a farmer living beside a river in India. He finds a poorly plant and tends it carefully. It produces a magnificent pumpkin, which grows and grows. When the rains come, flooding the land, Pattan’s family and animals need to evacuate quickly. Pattan cuts an enormous hole in his gigantic pumpkin, hollowing it out so there is room for himself and his wife, animals and plenty of food too.  The pumpkin saves them all from the flood and eventually the rain stops and they reach dry land.

Based on a traditional tale from Southern India, Pattan’s Pumpkin is an enjoyable flood story, beautifully told and illustrated. There are clear similarities to Noah’s Ark and also echoes of other Indian folk tales such as The Old Woman and the Red Pumpkin.
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MESSAGE TO PARENTS FROM SONIA THOMPSON, BIRMINGHAM HEADTEACHER

Sue McGonigle from Lovemybooks interviewed Sonia Thompson, Head Teacher of St Matthews C of E Primary School, Birmingham. See whole video
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What people say about Lovemybooks
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I would encourage any nursery/primary teacher school to take a look at these resources!
Lovemybooks is also an amazing website to share with your parents.
Sonia Thompson our patron and Birmingham Head Teacher:

"The Lovemybooks website is something that I have shared with training teachers here at Brookes & with parents too. It's a HUGE database and worth schools subscribing to the newsletter and passing the site onto parents as well.
"Mat Tobin Lecturer in Primary English and Children's literature at Oxford Brookes

“The Lovemybooks website is a brilliant resource of both fun and educational activities”  Sarah, parent

“This site is gold, such a rich resource for schools and parents, and the bodies behind the scenes are experts in their field”  The Writing Web

"Lovemybooks is such a brilliant resource for parents and teachers! Thank you Lovemybooks for such brilliant recommendations and such imaginative and inspiring activities to continue the fun further!" Rachel, parent and teacher

"Caspar loves reading but he gets particularly excited when we can bring books to life for him. Lovemybooks provides some great inspiration for how to achieve this. Thanks Lovemybooks for the great recommendation and fantastic ways for Caspar to immerse himself in the book!"  Ben, parent

"Fallen in LOVE with @lovemybooksUK lovemybooks.co.uk absolutely brilliant activities to enhance reading time with children."
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"As an early years lecturer at Strathclyde University I would like to express how useful your web site has been in delivering training to early years teacher within Scotland . They have notified parents and used the web site to support their own work in nursery. The feedback has been exceptional so I was keen to let you know." Deirdre Grogan Early Years lecturer Scotland

"I am a child care provider in the US.  I just found your site today by accident while looking for an "Elmer" template.  I am IN LOVE! I have saved your site to my computer and will be back soon and often.  Thank you for this amazing resource."
Kelly Simpson US

"What an amazing resource!"Jennie Clarke 

"What a wonderful website!!"  Helen Bradford Senior Teaching Fellow UCL Institute of Education

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