By Donna Luck, with illustrations by Juliet Doyle
Let’s face it – it is only kindness that will ever make this world a better place. In this simple story Elsa Elephant behaves badly which leads to important lessons about being kind and helpful. There’s a big surprise in store for the whole class – except for Elsa Elephant who has behaved badly and not thought of others feelings. Miss Beanie does not choose her but instead gives the surprise to Gino Giraffe and Zelda Zebra to look after. A chance encounter finally allows Elsa to prove to Miss Beanie that she too can be kind and helpful and she learns just how nice it can be to be trusted to follow the Golden Rule. This resource is part of Jenny Mosley’s Golden Rules range.
Jenny Mosley’s Small Books of the Golden Rules in Action are perfect companion books for this series and are bursting with ideas to bring the Golden Rules to life!
(A3 version is currently unavailable to purchase individually.)
Format: A5 Version: (Positive Press) A5, colour paperback, 32pp.
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5 reviews for Golden Rules Animal Stories: We Are Kind And Helpful
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Circle Time –
5 out of 5 stars
This and the other five books of the series are so sweet and beautifully illustrated. They each bring an important lesson to young children of how to behave and treat other people. I have spent time reading and showing the lovely pictures to many children now and they just love them. They ask to see/hear them again and again, and I can remind them of each character when they disobey the simple golden rules. Best for children up to 8/9 depending their maturity. I now have a hand puppet for each character just to make it really fun, but the books in themselves are delightful.
Review by Silvyon (Amazon)
Circle Time –
5 out of 5 stars
Great for our first few weeks in class. We read all six books to the kids (Year 3 age 7) and then made up our classroom rules together using the ideas from the stories. Also we made our first written assesmment based on this – we read the first 5 books then showed the title of the 6th and asked the pupils to write what they thought might happen. They used the same characters and repeated Mon, Tue, Wed etc theme to base their ideas around! Would recommend to other schools!
Review by K. Williamson (Amazon)
Circle Time –
5 out of 5 stars
Out of all the collection of ‘golden rule’ story books that I read to the class, this is the children’s favourite. The usual ‘gang’ of Elsa the Elephant, Gino Giraffe, Mena Monkey etc and of course Miss Beany feature in this tale. This time it’s Elsa the Elephant who rides roughshod over the feelings of others. Elsa desperately wants to take the school rabbit home for the weekend, so has to mend her ways.
These books are lovely for teaching respect and acceptable behaviour to younger children. When listening to this story (or any of the others), children can see where the chosen animal of the story is going wrong and what they must do to rectify the situation. The children seem really pleased when the animal’s hard work is rewarded. I have all of the golden rules books as the children really enjoy them and the teaching of respect/morals/principles etc is very effective.
Review by Susanneon (Amazon)
Circle Time –
5 out of 5 stars
Perfect books to teach children important basic values. My boys aged 5 + 7 love the stories. I thought they might get bored of hearing them or find them a bit too moralizing, but they keep asking to read the stories to them. They really like the golden rules and we talk about them during the day when appropriate, also when other children have upset them, these stories are a good way to explain to them what may have gone wrong and how the other child may have forgotten or not been aware of the golden rule.
Review by A. Aprendoon (Amazon)
Circle Time –
They are glossy and colourful and each one focusses on a different golden rule using talking animals. The stories are written at a level suitable for a really good Junior Infant level, Senior Infants, 1st and even 2nd Class. Because there is a lot of text and more challenging vocabulary, each page’s vocab could be pre taught to a younger class. I still think the Junior Infants would enjoy as the pictures and story line reel them right in. They would be a great addition to any class library and if your class are following the Golden Rules, these will be another positive reinforcer for them! These books can help utilise that bridge between English and social, personal and health education. You can get great mileage out of these books, using thematic planning and language experience approach-shared reading and writing. Extremely usable as in the teacher can instantly access them without any pre-teaching. The books also come in a A5 and A3 sizes to the larger books are great for individual class level. The smaller books could also be placed on a visualiser for whole class interaction with the pictures and language.
This review was written by Rozz Lewis rozz@anseo.net