Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Text 30: Little Grey Rabbits Pancake Day
- Context: Written by Allison (1884 – 1976)
- Best known for her children’s series about little grey rabbit and Sam pig
- She began writing to support herself and her son financially after
she became a widow
- Context of production: Intended for children
- Allison Uttely started writing children’s books
to support herself financially
- Written in the 1930’s
- Layout of presentation: Small paragraphs and simple sentences due to it being
written for children ‘Oh its hot said hare’
- Blue Font
- This can be linked to text 23: Jonathan Crisp as it uses
colour to represent the heat of the crisps, illustrations,
different colour font and personification ‘Crisps of natural
character’
- Illustrations
- Last paragraph has rhyming couplets
- Form and structure: The text has small paragraphs mostly made up of simple and compound sentences
‘Eat it cried Rabbit
- This compares to Text 4: Grandpa’s soup, which has simple sentences ‘He knows I will grow up and pine
for it’
- It also has one long paragraph which is written in a stream of consciousness
- Sound patterning: Rhymes, alliteration ‘Pancake day pancake day’
- This can be compared to Text 4: Grandpas soup as it uses rhymes and alliteration ‘Hough which rhymes
with loch’
- Word choice: Monosyllabic, its intended for small children so it’s easy and simple to read
- ‘OFF’ is in capitals
- Can be compared with text 1:
Butchers shop ‘They hang’ as this
gives a visual representation of them
hanging
- ‘Meaty smile’ Butcher described as a piece of meat
- Polysyllabic, gives a negative description of the butcher
- Grammar: Very simple sentences so it’s easy to read
- Few compound sentences