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20/10/2010 by Nikita

As a booklover – and in particular a lover of children’s books – those of you who have been following my blogentries, you will also remember my other book-entries – I couldn’t refuse this book from my shelf, after I have been asked at my school to teach Y1’s after half term. Phew! That will then put me in a category of…. teaching across five keystages! Well, I’ve actually done KS1 before [Y2], so I actually qualified for whatever category- Jack of all trades [keystages] but master of? …  two years ago. By just the thought of teaching the tiny tots in more than a week from now, put me in a mood of reading again some of my good-reads. This book, ‘Oi! Get off our Train’ by John Burningham is one of my big favourites. I  looo—oooove this book and its illustrations done by the author too. The boy in the story plays with his train – again. His mum sends him to bed with his payama case [a dog – also the dog in these pics] and then he dreams about the two of them on a train and all sorts of animals joining them with all sorts of excuses to get on their train,while having some great fun altogether as well. [See some the images which I took from the book for you to enjoy] Each time an animal gets on the train, they shout at the animal to get off and when the animal explains to them the why’s of getting on their train, their faces drop as they pity the animal and then they allow the animal on their train. On the last pic you can see the last animal explaining why it was getting on their train. The elephant was the first animal to get on. I guess you can work out the order of the other animals then. Don’t miss this book if you’re looking for a great book! The theme of the book ties in with cruelty to animals. Update: Nov- So, then the new teacher [senior position] has decided not to turn up and I’ve been asked to go back to my Y5-class, which was wonderful of course -sad- I could have spent my time during half term focusing on my Y5’s!

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  1. on 21/10/2010 at 00:27 Krista

    How fun! I haven’t read this one yet, but I also love and collect children’s books. 🙂 The illustrations delight me! 🙂


  2. on 21/10/2010 at 09:41 Nikita

    hi Krista! Welcome to my blog and thank you for your message. I’m glad I have somebody in common to share the love of children’s books. Yes, these illustrations are actually the most important part of the book and you can’t stop yourself from enjoying it. 🙂 I need to find the free-hand drawn picture of the Teaching Assistant who was so creative with the class display when I used this book with the Y2’s. I must upload it in this post too.


  3. on 21/10/2010 at 12:48 Nikita


    haha…just found the video on youtube, but it is quite different than the book! Do enjoy…there is more than one part to watch!



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