Year 2 write missing blurbs for Eric Carle’s books

As part of our new Y2 Minibeast topic, we have looked at many books by acclaimed and beloved author and illustrator, Eric Carle. For those of you who haven’t heard of him, his best known work is The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Did you know that he has also illustrated more than seventy books, most of which he wrote himself?

Mrs. Rachel’s has an extensive collection so we have been fortunate to be able to read many of his books. Some of them fit perfectly with our topic include The Grouchy Ladybug, The Very Quiet Cricket and The Very Busy Spider.

After A LOT of reading, we discovered that quite a few of Carle’s books don’t have blurbs (a short description of a book appearing on the back cover).  This is something that we look at every time we read a new book, so we took it upon ourselves to write some for him.

We wrote two draft blurbs then chose our best one and copied it up neatly, using a line guide then finished it off with a matching picture. Year 2 is very proud to present their blurbs. We hope you enjoy reading them!

In addition, Mrs. Rachel has helped the Y2 children to really understand how Carle produced his unique illustrations and supported them to create their own versions. Please do come into Osprey class to see some of our incredible art work!

And finally, we are lucky enough to have two of Carle’s books translated into Spanish by Mrs. Yorka… so now we can read them in English and Spanish!

What a fantastic resource and thank you to both Mrs. Rachel and Mrs. Yorka for all the time and effort they have put into complementing our Minibeast topic with their specialist subjects, Art and Spanish!