What’s at the end of this piece of rope?
Do you leave it? Pull it? Or ask some friends to help you investigate?
All this is explored through a simple and fun text written by Tania Cox and Illustrated by Jedda Robaard.
With a repeated refrain : What’s at the end of this piece of rope? , a small girl enlists the help of many friends to help her to work out where this tightly held rope is anchored to.
Working together is a key concept in this story and with engaging and fun illustrations, young children will see how important and fun team work can be.
The young reader will love chanting the refrain and also wondering which animal friend will help next. You can ask questions to your young reader as you skip along through the pages helping them to develop their inquiry based thinking.
Enjoy reading this book aloud or encourage your early reader to read to you. Not only is this book a great early reader it is also a great book to spend time perusing through the images of the animals who fill up this book with warmth.
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What else can you do with this book?
- Question – what else can be at the end of a piece of rope?
- Question – should we always pull ropes by ourselves?
- Question -Why do we need other people to help us sometimes?
- Which animals are in this story, write down their names and the countries that they come from.
- Look at the sounds they make as they pull the rope. Can you think of some other sounds that you might make when something is heavy?
- Why are there not many words in this picture book? Explore the importance of pictures.
- Please and thank you are used quite a bit in this story – why are these words important?
