They're not pets like cats and dogs are, they just sort-of adopt you, like the wombat in this story. The wombat has simple needs and lives in a wombat utopia — a rural human environment with a large supply of carrots growing in the garden, good soil for digging holes and everything else she could possibly want.

I also have Clean Guides (downloadable PDFs) which enable you to clean up your book before reading it!Not only that, she is endlessly greedy for carrots and even when given carrots, she still wants more. His choice to depict the wombat in various cardinal directions may partly be to do with the need to vary each illustration from the others. He is shown to be a fruit connoisseur, and in another episode the big gag is that Kramer could have won a lot of money after being scalded by hot coffee, but he is delighted with a lifetime’s supply of free coffees instead. Activity9 - Explicit teaching/Joint Construction (The 'colon' and 'lists') Reviewthe use of punctuation in the story, i.

They seem to present the same kind of nuisance to people in Australia as raccoons do to people in the U. The obliviousness of the wombat means that Jackie French created her loosely based upon the classic Dolt character.

What I wasn't prepared for, that day in Katoomba, was to be blown away by listening to someone with such an interesting and vigorous mind It was the equivalent of expecting a straightforward motorway trip and instead being treated to n off-road adventure: more challenging and much more memorable. Before the book begins, the author provides a short paragraph including background knowledge about wombats to keep in mind as the story begins. The design of the book is handsome, with richly colored acrylic images set against a sharp white background. The wombat's matter-of-fact account of her days, told in diary form, are very funny, particularly in conjunction with the charming illustrations.

It is good for introducing the idea of diaries, along with the use of repitition to teach children words and their contexts that the children may not know before this book. She teaches them when she would like carrots, when she would like oats and when she would like both at the same time.

We and our partners use data for Personalised ads and content, ad and content measurement, audience insights and product development. We suggest that the oversaturation of the local children’s picture book market with such similar stories disadvantages all children, who are denied a rich and diverse reading experience, as well as the opportunity to see themselves and their peers depicted.

The dingo follows, and when it tries to jump on the wombat's back to crush the neck with its jaws, the wombat will lift itself on its powerful, earth-moving legs and crush the dingo between the hard plate of the wombat's back and the roof of the burrow. Language of diary writing is used as pages have headings for days of the week and different times of the day.The simple repeated structure and beautifully drawn illustrations will encourage emerging independent readers to engage with the story and draw parallels with their own feelings as they follow cat’s tale. The people are accommodating and the wombat concludes at the end of the week that, "humans are easily trained and make quite good pets. As a grown-up with awareness of the Big Picture I was a little bothered, but kids will probably just enjoy the reversal of roles as Our Wombat feels like she owns the human's yard and that the humans have become her pets!