Rooftoppers

Product Information

Ieri sono stata sveglia fino alle due di notte per finire questa meraviglia ❤ Una favola assolutamente perfetta in questo periodo, una storia che parla di amore, amicizia, coraggio, speranza e legami indissolubili... Un romanzo che venera le mamme sopra ogni cosa. Perché

We have created this resource from the fantastic vocabulary used by Katherine Rundell in the opening chapter of Rooftoppers. English Year 5 & Year 6​: Understand what they read by exploring the meaning of words in context; drawing inferences and justifying inferences with evidence; predicting what might happen from details stated and implied; summarising the main ideas drawn from more than one paragraph and identifying key details that support the main ideas; and identifying how language, structure and presentation contribute to meaning. The adventures begin when Sophie evades the French authorities with the help of Matteo, a street urchin, and his network of ‘Rooftoppers,’ in the search for her mother.

LoveReading4Kids Says

I think kids might appreciate the use of language, whereas I found some of it a bit kitschy. There were descriptions and even minor plot elements that chose quirky aesthetic sweetness over actual usefulness. A Chelsea bun that tastes like blue skies? It's a lovely sentence, but I'm no closer to knowing what that bun tastes like. And having a suit where a heart should be? It's been done - in fact, I'm pretty sure Meg Ryan says something very similar in You've Got Mail. But for young readers/writers just learning to wrangle words into a particular voice, this kind of language can be engaging and open up new possibilities. Birch, Joseph (19 May 2016). "Moscow's Daredevil Urban Roofers Fall Under the System's Watch". The Moscow Times . Retrieved 2020-07-14.

karen pretty much nailed it when she said this was "classic-feeling". This whimsical historical tale has something timeless and wonderful about it - like all the best children's classics. The characters are so well-drawn and memorable, and the writing sparkles with a certain bittersweetness. Wu Yongning, known as the Chinese Superman; died in 2017 while performing a rooftopping stunt. [21] [22] [23] [24]However, once the book became plot driven, with Sophie and Charles going on a journey to find her mother, it lost its magic for me. Miss Eliot (from The National Childcare Agency) is also concerned about the baby’s (whom Charles has named Sophie) care.

Embrace possibility and let Sophie’s music take you to the rooftops of Paris. It is about hope and belief, about following your inner voice, listening to your senses and letting the music play on, play on, play on. All wrapped up in luscious, chocolaty prose. Rooftoppers by Katherine Rundell has the quality and the warmth of a children’s classic. It is a gorgeous story about a little girl in search for her mother. There aren’t many stories like this, not anymore, and as a parent, I’m extremely grateful when I discover one to share with my daughter. this book is amazing, it is a cliffhanger and would love another chapter. The ending made me cry when Sophie finally found her mother.

Jacqueline Wilson: 'David Walliams's books are not what I would have wanted as a child'

When Wilhelmina Silver's home is sold, she is torn from her best friend, her adopted monkey and her pet horse, and banished to an inhospitable boarding school in England. Already being proclaimed a classic in children’s literature and compared to the likes of Roald Dahl and Eva Ibbotson, Katherine Rundell’s Rooftoppers merges fantasy and historical fiction with sophisticated lyrical prose and vivid imagery that will delight middle grade readers, tweens, teens, and parents and teachers alike. This is an adventure story about a daring girl, called Sophie, who plays cello. She stowed away on a train, then a boat, to Paris, in France. When she arrived, she has an urge to clamber onto the roof. When she finally did, she met a gang of Rooftoppers and started her search for one of the most vital things in life: her loving mother. I found it %F0%9F%98%85, or in other words hooking! Maxim and Sophie, threatened with immediate eviction to an orphanage, decide to run out of the country and head to Paris, chasing a wild dream of finding the girl's mother from a clue hidden in the cello box. Mother-hunting becomes the main interest for Sophie. Without impunding in any way her love for Charles, the girl is in need of "A place to put down her heart. A resting stop to recover her breath. A set of stars and maps." The Parisian authorities prove to be even more inflexible and corrupt than the London ones, and Sophie only finds help and understanding in a band of outlaws and orphans like herself - a group of lost children living like savages among the rooftops of the city. Thus is the rooftoppers club born, an a charming novel written.