The Rhyming Rabbit

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Before Malcolm and I had our three sons we used to go busking together and I would write special songs for each country; the best one was in Italian about pasta. We have been practising hearing and identifying rhyming words together recently and focused initially on identifying rhyming strings with word families that all have the same middle and end sounds. For example, making a collection of rhyming words that all belong in the “-at” family, such as “cat”, “mat”, “bat”, “sat”, “fat” etc. Make a simple rhyming activity to help practise rhyming pairs and learn about literacy in a playful, hands-on way! This would be great for both home and the classroom as a go-to resource on the shelf.

I put together a very simple and easy activity using a large basket and some small toys from various Playmobil, Sylvanian Families and other small sets. I made simple pairs of rhyming objects and then mixed them all up to be found and matched. To Barker, a row is a Bull-an'-a-Cow, a suit is a Whistle or Whistle-an'-flute, a kid is a Gord-Forbid; a car is a Jam , or Jam-Jar; talk is ' Rabbit , or Rabbit-an'-Pork; beer is Pig's-Ear … and so on, up and down the language The Rhyming Rabbit loves to make up entertaining poems, inspired by everything he sees, but the other rabbits don’t appreciate his talent for rhyme. Sad and lonely, the Rhyming Rabbit sets off one starry night all on his own – will he ever find someone to share his poems with?

Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs - and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh.

Greek: κουνέλι (el) n ( kounéli ) Ancient: δασύπους m ( dasúpous ), λεβηρίς f ( lebērís ), ( Koine ) κούνικλος m ( koúniklos ) One of my television songs, A SQUASH AND A SQUEEZE, was made into a book in 1993, with illustrations by the wonderful Axel Scheffler. It was great to hold the book in my hand without it vanishing in the air the way the songs did. This prompted me to unearth some plays I’d written for a school reading group, and since then I’ve had 20 plays published. Most children love acting and it’s a tremendous way to improve their reading. Related forms include Middle French rabouillet ( “ baby rabbit ” ) and in French rabot ( “ plane ” )), coming via Walloon Old French (reflected nowadays as Walloon robète ( “ rabbit ” )), from Middle Dutch robbe ( "rabbit; seal"; whence Modern Dutch rob ( “ seal", also "rabbit ” ) ); also Middle Low German robbe, rubbe ( “ rabbit ” ), and the later Low German Rubbe ( “ seal ” ), West Frisian robbe ( “ seal ” ), Saterland Frisian Rubbe ( “ seal ” ), North Frisian rob ( “ seal ” ), borrowed into German Robbe ( “ seal ” ).Malay: arnab (ms), kelinci, kucing belanda, kuilu, tapai, terwelu Jawi: ارنب‎, کلينچي‎, کوچيڠ بلندا‎, کويلو‎, تاڤاي‎, ترويلو‎ As a next step activity to making the rhyming strings, we had fun playing with real objects that sounded the same but didn’t necessarily all have the same spelling patterns. For example, “bear and chair” which sound the same but are not spelt the same. This was an entirely auditory activity, placing emphasis on listening, discriminating and matching sounds, rather than writing them down or reading them, so it still comes as an early step in the process in understanding about rhyme. To make learning more concrete and playful, we always like to make the activity using manipulatives and as playful as possible. We all learn best while touching, moving and doing, rather than looking at a worksheet or set of 2D images! Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers. I grew up in a tall Victorian London house with my parents, grandmother, aunt, uncle, younger sister Mary and cat Geoffrey (who was really a prince in disguise. Mary and I would argue about which of us would marry him).

The meaning “pretty woman” is sometimes used with disparaging intent and perceived as insulting. For instance, a beach bunny is an alluring female who frequents the beach only to meet male surfers. But bunny was originally (and still is) used as a term of endearment for a girl or young woman. What is White rabbit slang for? This is a fun story about a rabbit who likes to make up rhymes about everything and anything! Unfortunately for him, his other rabbit friends find his incessant need to make up rhymes about everything incredibly irritating and keep telling him to stop doing it. I also continued to write “grown-up” songs and perform them in folk clubs and on the radio, and have recently released two CDs of these songs. rabbit ( third-person singular simple present rabbits, present participle rabbiting, simple past and past participle rabbited)From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Middle French *robotte, *rabotte or Anglo- Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe, perhaps related to robbe ( “ seal ” ), itself of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben ( “ to rub ” ) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub. Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term coney, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (cf. ass and donkey). Central: tochtli, tochin Central Huasteca: koatochi, koatochij Classical: tochtli Western Huasteca: kuatochi