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The Shopping Basket
Steven is sent out for groceries on to the mean street of the city with only a shopping basket for protection. There are several shady characters about who are offering to lighten the load of the basket by helping themselves to his provisions! Stephen's having none of it and with the help of some of the city's less attractive sights he outsmarts all of them and makes it ho...more
Paperback, 32 pages
Published
October 15th 1992
by Red Fox
(first published 1980)
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‘The Shopping Basket’ by John Burningham is fantastic children's story time book. It is about a boy named Steven who has been sent on a shopping errand by his Mum. He has been given a list of groceries to purchase from the shop but on his way there, on the street, he is confronted by six different animals demanding a selection of his items. Luckily, he manages escape by tricking each of the animals and arrives home just in time for tea with the majority of the shopping.
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My mentor asked me to have a read of this book as we are hoping to plan some lessons around it. The shopping basket is a very old book written in 1980, I remember reading it as a child myself.
Steven's mother asks him to go to the shop and get six eggs, five bananas, four apples, three oranges, two doughnuts and a packet of crisps! On Steven's journey home he is faced with many different animals trying to take his basket, he uses an item of his shopping each time to challenge them. Steven hurries...more
Steven's mother asks him to go to the shop and get six eggs, five bananas, four apples, three oranges, two doughnuts and a packet of crisps! On Steven's journey home he is faced with many different animals trying to take his basket, he uses an item of his shopping each time to challenge them. Steven hurries...more
When Steven's mother asks him to go to the shop you would think that nothing could go wrong. However when Steven goes on this errand to get six eggs, five bananas, four apples, three oranges, two doughnuts and a packet of crisps, he is confronted by a variety of animals all demanding their share. Confronted by a menacing monkey, a burly bear and a petulant pig, Steven has to outwit them all. Arriving home a little later than his mother expected and with a slightly lighter shopping basket.
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I read this book to my year 2 class before we started our lesson on instruction writing. This is a very good book for pupils to be introduced on how to write a shopping list. The story is about a boy who runs an errand for his mother, this involves the boy, called Steven, to buy the shopping by making a trip to the local shop. Except on the way back Steven meets many different animals demanding his shopping. At this point you cannot help but create all the different voices for each animal which...more
The Shopping Basket by John Burningham is a wonderful book I remember from my childhood. It is about a young boy named Steven who is sent to the shop by his mum to buy some groceries. On the way home Steven faces a number of characters who want some of the items in his basket. Steven uses his quick wit to outsmart them, but will his mum be happy?
A great book to read to children in the foundation stage or key stage one. It can be used to create role plays, and as a starting point for children lea...more
A great book to read to children in the foundation stage or key stage one. It can be used to create role plays, and as a starting point for children lea...more
I remember when I was younger I constantly read this book, had my mom read this book, Was obsessed with this book. Basiclly it's about Steven (carrying his basket) and getting rid of 'Bullies' which are animals by means that don't put him down on their level. Fun Book, Cute Illustrations, Good morale and even some math. I'm pretty sure I'll remember this book for the rest of my life.
This is an interesting book as it it involves humour. It is also impressive because it involves the mathematical concepts of subtraction which makes this book cross-curiicular. The book allows children to laugh. The book can be used as a traet for children because it is quite fuuny.
I guess you could teach a lesson about bullying or cleverness from this, but I found nothing that endeared me to any of the characters, in fact I found them all rather grating. I was relieved to finally finish the story and close the book. Not my style of children's read-alouds.
I would use this book to talk about counting. I would count all the items the boy was getting from the store. I would also use this book to talk about how the young boy solved the problems with the animals that watned to take the food he had in his basket.
This book is great to build children's math skills-counting. The students can add all the items he has in the beginning of the book and count down to figure out how many items he has in the end.
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Married to Helen Oxenbury They have one son and two daughters.
John Burningham was born in 1936 in Farnham, Surrey, and attended the alternative school, Summerhill. In 1954 he spent two years travelling through Italy, Yugoslavia and Israel, working at a variety of jobs.
From 1956-1959, he studied at the Central School of Art, after which he designed posters fo...more
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Married to Helen Oxenbury They have one son and two daughters.
John Burningham was born in 1936 in Farnham, Surrey, and attended the alternative school, Summerhill. In 1954 he spent two years travelling through Italy, Yugoslavia and Israel, working at a variety of jobs.
From 1956-1959, he studied at the Central School of Art, after which he designed posters fo...more
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