This character description KS2 WAGOLL pack includes an extract from Glassborn, by Peter Bunzl, plus teaching notes and worksheets.
Use these resources to help you teach KS2 pupils how to introduce an ambiguous character in their writing.
This character description KS2 download contains:
- Worksheets
- Extract
- Poster
- Planning sheet and image ideas
- Working wall resources
- Teacher notes
From the author…
Glassborn is the story of four Georgian children, Cora, Bram, Elle and Acton, who have lost their mother. They travel with their father to Fairykeep Cottage. This is a house owned by their aunt Eliza, where their mother grew up.
Fairykeep Cottage is full of wonder: enchanted objects, Mama’s old fairytales and fairy spells. Soon the four children find themselves drawn through magical doorways into a dangerous adventure in Fairyland.
They must use their wits, cunning and stories to take on the Fairy Queen and Death himself, to save their family and the whole of England from a horrible magic curse.
The seeds for Glassborn grew from my interest in two things: the Narnia stories of C. S. Lewis, which I loved when I was growing up, and the childhood of the Brontë siblings.
The Brontës were the best example of real Georgian children I could find who, like Lewis, lost their mother when they were very young.
The Brontë children’s early lives, like Lewis’, were filled with drawings, paintings, stories, fairytales, and their own invented imaginary worlds. All of these were a precursor to their novels and art.
I wanted to combine those ideas: the fantasy other-lands of Lewis’ children’s books, and the self-possessed and unique imaginations of real-life Georgian children like the Brontës.
My intention was to write a story about siblings in a big family: how they fit in and how they create their own unique identities. How they have their own skills and talents, and how they learn to share those abilities to help one another on an adventure.
Peter Bunzl’s books have been translated into 16 languages and sold nearly half a million copies worldwide. Glassborn is out now. Thank you to Lindsay Pickton for creating the resource pack.
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