Night of the Gargoyles

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/z826n39 - free resource with clips and games for the KS2 curriculum OTHER CURRICULUM – IPC/Science Recently I've been getting stationed in children's at work. On slower nights I try to familiarize myself with newer picture books...and end up going down nostalgia lane with books I adored as a young child and then lost to time and memory. This one was read to us when I was in primary school during library time, and I fell in love with it's grey-scale images, the way that the city was alight and alive even during the night, the way that artificial light and moonlight blended with the dark and shadow to make the night even more vibrant than the day. The impish creatures that I knew as a child (I KNEW) would come to life at night---then I forgot the title...the author, and eventually, the book altogether. Gargoyles have six powers and abilities: immortality (invulnerable to the passing of time and to diseases), human form (shapeshift to human-like beings), flight posses wings), camouflage (blend with the inanimate grotesques to surprise intruders), endurance (cannot be wounded at night), and petrification (turns other beings into stone by touch).

Open mouth. As waterspouts, their mouths are wide open and their tongues are showing. This is believed to be a symbol of devouring giants, a threatening gesture which reminds people that there are some forces larger than humans. Corbett Maths, has 5 a day questions covering the full range of Maths questions, one each day of the year, with answers, at bronze, silver, gold and platinum levels That same year, she began her writing career, and in 1972, her first book, "The Two Giants" was published. In 1976, "One More Flight" won the Golden Kite Medal, and in 1978, "Ghost of Summer" won the Southern California's Council on Literature for Children and Young People's Award for fiction. "Smokey Night" won the American Library Association's Randolph Caldecott Medal in 1995 and "Winter's Coming" was voted one of the 10 Best Books of 1977 by the New York Times.

Bunting went to school in Ireland and grew up with storytelling. In Ireland, “There used to be Shanachies… the shanachie was a storyteller who went from house to house telling his tales of ghosts and fairies, of old Irish heroes and battles still to be won. Maybe I’m a bit of a Shanchie myself, telling stories to anyone who will listen.” This storytelling began as an inspiration for Bunting and continues with her work.

English plan on Night of the Gargoyles, with full text and text activities. Choice of writing tasks and Art/Craft ideas urn:oclc:35207746 Republisher_date 20150205082103 Republisher_operator [email protected] Scandate 20150115012615 Scanner scribe17.shenzhen.archive.org Scanningcenter shenzhen Worldcat (source edition) Man with foliage. Celts believed that those branches protruding from a gargoyle’s mouth or crowning a gargoyle’s head served as a sign of divinity. Ellis, known for her illustrations for Colin Meloy’s Wildwood series, here riffs on the concept of “home.” Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2013-05-29 21:38:12 Boxid IA1129409 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City [S.l.] DonorIn this stunning collaboration of two exceptional talents, the striking charcoal illustrations and nimble text reveal what happens at night when the gargoyles come to life. Night of the Gargoyles by Eve Bunting – eBook Details During the 1920s to the early 1930s, Art Deco architecture, a modernist movement inspired by ancient traditions, mounted metal gargoyles atop the 1930 Chrysler Building in New York City. Known for being hideous stone-like monsters, gargoyles are grotesque mythical creatures that sit on top of old cathedrals and churches. Acting as spiritual guardians of the city, a gargoyle’s real function is to divert rainwater away from buildings.