Write a letter from the bear to his family at the point when he is recording albums and winning awards for his music.

Families can also talk about learning to play an instrument. Does it take time and practice? How does the story convey that? The author’s heroes and biggest influences are Albert Uderzo, Jon Klassen and Shaun Tan. Can you find out more about these people? Can you see any of their influences in this book? Shortlisted for the UKLA 2017 Book Award | One of our Books of the Year 2016 | Shortlisted for the Children's category of the Books are My Bag Readers Awards 2016 | Shortlisted for the English Picture Book Award 2016| Longlisted for the inaugural Klaus Flugge Prize, an important new illustration prize for children's books| Winner of the Illustrated category of The Waterstones Children's Book Prize 2016. Author Luke Palmer introduces his new book, Play (Firefly Press) about four boys growing up together, the challenges, the friendships, and what hap... Watch this animation that was created to promote the book. Could you create your own animated trailer?

This is a three-sessionspelling seed for the book The Bear and the Piano by David Litchfield. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.

When you watch the full animation, listen out for the following pieces of music and learn more about the composers who wrote them. You’ll be surprised how many you will recognise: Hello Yellow - 80 Books to Help Children Nurture Good Mental Health and Support With Anxiety and Wellbeing - A fantastic tale outlining the conflict between staying with those that you love and doing the thing that you love. The dilemma is - can you do both?David first started to draw when he was very young, creating Star Wars and Indiana Jones ‘mash up’ comics for his older brother and sister. Since then David’s work has appeared in magazines, newspapers, books and on T-shirts. He has also exhibited his illustrations in both solo and group shows in the U.K, Europe and America. When the bear is learning to play the piano, different illustrations show the same scene at different times of the year. Could you create a similar sequence of images? Found a couple of copies of this on a table at work with a sign saying "Free to those with kids" no idea who put them there, this looked like an interesting book so a nabbed a copy. One day, a bear cub finds something strange in the forest.” Use this line from the book’s blurb as the starting point for your own story.

The Bear and the Piano animation score includes some well-known piano pieces written over the last 400 years alongside Daniel Whibley’s original music. Watch the trailer below: When the bear plays, he dreams of strange and wonderful lands. Listen to a piece of piano music and draw / write / describe what it makes you dream of.The Sunday Times -'The influence of the great illustrators Jon Klasen and Shaun Tan are detectable in David Litchfield's opulent The Bear and the Piano.' The bear's piano playing makes him a huge star, but he misses the friends and family he has left behind. Could it be that money and celebrity are not everything? ARABESQUE No 1 – The French composer Debussy never had much money during the first world war, when coal was so expensive. Debussy paid for it by writing compositions for the coal man. LoveReading4Kids exists because books change lives, and buying books through LoveReading4Kids means you get to change the lives of future generations, with 25% of the cover price donated to schools in need. Join our community to get personalised book suggestions, extracts straight to your inbox, 10% off RRPs, and to change children’s lives. Before beginning the story look at the cover illustration and wonder together about where this story might happen and how a bear might be playing a piano. Read the story aloud pausing to talk about the decisions the bear might make, for example when he is invited to leave the forest and when he is sitting on the roof in the city lost in thought. Join in

A moving tale of exploration and belonging from an exciting debut author-illustrator. About This Edition ISBN: The winners of The Farshore Reading for Pleasure Teacher Awards 2023, highlighting the work schools are doing to encourage a love of reading, have... Spelling Seeds have been designed to complement Writing Roots by providing weekly, contextualised sequences of sessions for the teaching of spelling that include open-ended investigations and opportunities to practise and apply within meaningful and purposeful contexts, linked (where relevant) to other areas of the curriculum and a suggestion of how to extend the investigation into home learning. It's possible to pursue one's artistic interests in ways that broaden your horizons while also maintaining a connection to and love for your original family and community; the two aren't mutually exclusive. Developing your talents leads to satisfaction and success. We can commemorate and support those we're proud of. Music makes us happy, and it's important to have it in our lives. Make a poster announcing a concert with the famous bear and the piano – either in the big city or for the animals in the forest. You could look at the illustrations for ideas use A4 or A3 paper, felt tip pens or crayons. Be storytellersSABRE DANCE – Khachaturian was a Russian composer in the 20th century. The Sabre Dance is his most famous piece and has been used in dozens of films, most recently Madagascar 3. The Daily Mail -'A sumptuous treat... [Litchfield] weaves magic with light and space...The ending will have your heart soaring like a soprano's top C.' Find out more about the author’s A Drawing a Day project. Could you try to create a drawing every day?