The Magic Paintbrush

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The beautiful illustrations and naturally rhyming text make for an interesting and imagination grabbing book.

This edition features a stunning redesigned cover, making it a must-have addition to the bookshelves of all Donaldson fans – big and small! It can also be a springboard to explore Chinese culture and celebrations for children, particularly Chinese New Year and the Chinese Zodiac. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. In The Magic Paintbrush, Julia Donaldson's brilliant verse combines with beautiful illustrations from Joel Stewart, creator of The Adventures Abney and Teal, to bring vibrant life to a traditional tale of how a little girl's integrity can withstand the corruption of power and greed. With her magic paintbrush, Shen can paint steaming pots full of fish and oysters to feed the hungry people in her village.She is determined to keep her promise to paint only for the poor, but how can she match the emperor's mighty power?

I am a retired Infant Teacher and I first came across this story published as a Ladybird book, and my pupils always enjoyed it.The Magic Paintbrush is a traditional Chinese folktale, dealing with themes of justice and integrity. In The Magic Paintbrush, Julia Donaldson's brilliant verse combines with beautiful illustrations from Joel Stewart, creator of The Adventures Abney and Teal , to bring vibrant life to a traditional tale of how a little girl's integrity can withstand the corruption of power and greed. Registered office address: Office 6 HQ Business Centre | 237 Union Street | Plymouth | PL1 3HQ | UK. It tells the story of Shen who receives a magical paintbrush with instructions to paint for the poor as the paintings come to life.

Her other books include The Hospital Dog illustrated by Sara Ogilvie, The Christmas Pine illustrated by Victoria Sandøy and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures illustrated by Lydia Monks. As well as writing and illustrating wonderfully quirky books, Joel is a keen banjo player and adores comic strips. With her magic paintbrush, Shen can paint steaming pots full of fish and oysters to feed the hungry people in her village, but when the evil emperor hears of her gift he commands Shen to paint gold for him instead. Further books illustrated by Axel include Room on the Broom, Stick Man, Zog and The Smeds and the Smoos – all of which have been made into much-loved animated films by Magic Light Pictures.We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

I have used this book for two different topics (China and Traditional Tales) with two different year 2 classes and all have been captured by it. The children create their own dragon-like monsters through playing Mix and Match Monsters and record ideas by drawing and labelling a diagram. In this ten-session Writing Root, which we suggest will take 3 weeks to cover, the children discover a magic paintbrush and are asked what they would paint with it. In The Magic Paintbrush, Julia Donaldson's vibrant verse and Joel Stewart's beautiful illustrations bring fresh life to a traditional tale of how a little girl's integrity can withstand the corruption of power and greed.

She was the UK Children’s Laureate 2011–13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. It is a story of a girl who is gifted a magic paintbrush and made to promise that she will always only paint for the poor. I went to China Town in Manchester and purchased a real coolie hat some simple books with Chinese letter to copy. JD has stamped her distinctive rhythm into making this re-telling a very atmospheric book of how a little girl's life changes when she is given a magic brush which turns anything she paints into real life.