Mrs Barry led a fabulous session on some popular children's literature. The girls discussed books where the story is set in an imaginary land with lots of fantasy characters, they discussed Alice in Wonderland and how the adventures began with her falling down a rabbit hole and meeting some fantastic characters like the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat. Mrs Barry explained that there are lots of books which begin with a character entering a new world through a portal, for example The Wizard of Oz, where Dorothy left Kansas by a tornado and landed in Munchkin country and Gulliver being washed up in Liliput, which included imaginary characters such as the Liliputians in Gullivers Travels and the talking fawn in The Lion, the witch and the wardrobe.
The girls played a game where they created characters drawing different parts of a character and then passing it on to the next person until the character was complete. They also created an imaginary land for a fantasy story, some of the ideas were fantastic, for example, we had Candy land, Jellandia where the Jelitonians speak Jellish, the land of the Decimals and many more.
It was great fun to use our imaginations and think about imaginary lands and characters. Thank you to Mrs Barry for a creative and fun session.
