Meerkat Mail

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Sunny sends his family lots of postcards from all the different places he visits but none of them seem to suit him. When we had found all of the key features we started to discuss what we could put in our own postcards to Sunny. The postcards written within the book add an extra dimension to the text, as children can read these with an element of drama or use the knowledge from the postcard to explore the new setting that Sunny visited. Sunny presents a cheery personality that children can easily connect with, and the humour within his postcards carry a lighthearted feeling throughout the narrative. Sunny feels his home is too much of this and too much of that so he travels to different biomes with various family members looking for the perfect place to live.

I like how the book starts off with a character description/ timeline of how the main character develops. The illustrations are cute and show the emotions on Sunny’s face pretty clearly about what he thinks of them. Model writing a postcard from Sunny to his family, using the information headings to structure the content. Distinctive illustrations and lift-the-flap postcards make it a joy to share with children, who will also enjoy spotting the shadowy jackal lurking in the background of each picture.As with the other Emily Gravett books I have read, I found the artwork here charming - her meerkats are adorable, and her lurking jackal suitably sinister - and I also appreciated the innovative design, in which Sunny's postcards are attached to the page, making a "lift-the-flap" experience for readers.

Read in a Doctor's waiting room, this is a very cute children's picture book about Sunny the Meerkat who gets tired of his extended over-exuberant close knit family in the desert and goes off to visit relatives all over the world looking for a better place to live. Create an eye-catching display of the story, including scanned and enlarged images (remember the five percent rule) and samples of the children’s writing which are large enough to be read easily, e.Meerkat Mail is a wonderful picture book highlighting, for me, the importance of home and family and how nothing will ever come close no matter how hard you try (bless Sunny! I like how when the character Sunny goes and visits all his relatives in different places that each page contains a postcard. This is an entertaining and humourous account of Sunny the Meerkat's journey to visit his relatives. We learn interesting facts about the different animals, such as that Hornbills warn mongooses of danger, so they don’t have guard-duty, like the meerkats. Sunny lives on an arid plain with his extensive and loving meerkat family; they work together, play together and together do their best to stay away from jackals!

Sunny is a meerkat, and he wants to get out of the Kalahari Desert and go on an adventure - ideally to somewhere colder.It is against copyright to take and reproduce the text/pictures directly from a published book, so we always try to use our texts for the units based on the original.