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Programme 1: Something on Paper
Activities
- Make a collection of books and their video versions by Dick and authors such as AA Milne, Beatrix Potter, and Rudyard Kipling. As a group reading activity, give each group a different author and ask them to explore how they use anthropomorphism (for example both Milne and Potter dress their characters in human clothes) and then compare that author’s work with how Dick King-Smith treats his animal characters.
- Select extracts from some of Dick’s books that describe different settings. Ask pupils to highlight words and phrases that give particular detail. Do they notice any use of similes or metaphors? What do they notice about the mood and atmosphere that Dick creates? How do the characters respond to their settings?
- Ask pupils to describe a setting that they know well. How do they think one of Dick’s characters would respond to being placed inside it?
- List all the titles of Dick’s books and ask the pupils to predict what kind of book they think it will be and to give their reasons. Record their comments and revisit them once they have read the books.
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