Rainbow Magic
By Shirley Barber
SUMMARY:
Rainbow Magic has been a favourite read for many children including myself when I was little and there have been further editions created with different illustrations to this one shown above.
This beautifully created story about a girl with her grandmother and little dog in the meadows invites students to go on a magical journey as well as think about whether or not they believe in fairies. The little girl goes into the woods with her dog and the warning her grandmother gave her; not to go under any rainbows.
The little girl finds a pot of gold under a rainbow in the woods on journey and doesn't listen to the warning of her grandmother. As the girl and her dog shrink to a tiny size, they realise they've become fairies. Their quest back to their grandmothers house is full of adventure when they meet a village full of fairies and they help the little girl and her dog get back to her grandmother's house. The grandmother grows old as she watches the beautiful fairies along with her grand daughter roam the meadows outside her home.
First published in 1997, Shirley Barber not only was the author, but the illustrator as well displaying bright and presentable colours making the reader instantly attracted to the book. The illustrations in the story are just as important as the text because the images show things in the story that the text doesn't tell. This makes the reading experience all the more enjoyable for young students.
USE IN THE CLASS:
Rainbow Magic can be used in the classroom in various ways depending what the focus is on. Here are some suggestions:
- What else could happen if the little girl went under the rainbow? The children can create their own situation in the story.
- Add another character into the story, Who? What? Where would they be?
- Children tell the story from the grandmother's perspective.
- Children make a storyboard
- Instead of a rainbow and a pot of gold, what else could she have found?
LINKS TO ACARA:
I recommend the use of this book for a year 3 level as students can "Create imaginative texts based on characters, setting and events from students' own and other cultures using visual features for example perspective, distance and angle," according to the strand, Literature and sub-strand, Creating Literature as stated by ACARA (2012).
This book is easy to modify and adapt for any purpose making it easy to use for cross-curriculum purposes.
This beautifully created story about a girl with her grandmother and little dog in the meadows invites students to go on a magical journey as well as think about whether or not they believe in fairies. The little girl goes into the woods with her dog and the warning her grandmother gave her; not to go under any rainbows.
The little girl finds a pot of gold under a rainbow in the woods on journey and doesn't listen to the warning of her grandmother. As the girl and her dog shrink to a tiny size, they realise they've become fairies. Their quest back to their grandmothers house is full of adventure when they meet a village full of fairies and they help the little girl and her dog get back to her grandmother's house. The grandmother grows old as she watches the beautiful fairies along with her grand daughter roam the meadows outside her home.
First published in 1997, Shirley Barber not only was the author, but the illustrator as well displaying bright and presentable colours making the reader instantly attracted to the book. The illustrations in the story are just as important as the text because the images show things in the story that the text doesn't tell. This makes the reading experience all the more enjoyable for young students.
USE IN THE CLASS:
Rainbow Magic can be used in the classroom in various ways depending what the focus is on. Here are some suggestions:
- What else could happen if the little girl went under the rainbow? The children can create their own situation in the story.
- Add another character into the story, Who? What? Where would they be?
- Children tell the story from the grandmother's perspective.
- Children make a storyboard
- Instead of a rainbow and a pot of gold, what else could she have found?
LINKS TO ACARA:
I recommend the use of this book for a year 3 level as students can "Create imaginative texts based on characters, setting and events from students' own and other cultures using visual features for example perspective, distance and angle," according to the strand, Literature and sub-strand, Creating Literature as stated by ACARA (2012).
This book is easy to modify and adapt for any purpose making it easy to use for cross-curriculum purposes.
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