Edward the Emu

(9781460764084)

Written by Sheena Knowles

Illustrated by Rod Clement

Published by HarperCollins

Suggested learning area: ACPPS024 (Health and Physical Education – Year 1,Year 2),

ACPPS024 (Health, Years 1 and 2)

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Curriculum Alignment:

These AC codes are suggested purely based on the book’s content and are provided for reference only.

ACPPS024 8.4 (Health and Physical Education Year 1,Year 2): Recognise similarities and differences in individuals and groups, and explore how these are celebrated and respected

• examining images or descriptions of different families, communities and cultural groups to identify the features that make them similar and different
• sharing the things that make them similar to and different from others in the class
• exploring the importance to different cultures of storytelling through dance, music and song, including Aboriginal Dreaming/Creation stories
• discussing practices of their own culture used to pass on significant information from one generation to the next

About The Book

Tired of his life as an emu, Edward decides to try being something else for a change. He tries swimming with the seals, he spends a day lounging with the lions, and even slithers with the snakes. But Edward soon discovers that being an emu may be the best thing after all.

Sheena Knowles’s upbeat, rhyming text and Rod Clement’s expressive illustrations are sure to make readers laugh out loud in this whimsical picture book by the creators of Edwina the Emu.

AWARDS Shortlisted – 1989 CBCA Picture Book of the Year

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