The Last Wild: Book 1 (The Last Wild Trilogy)

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an amazing book, truly captivating and easy to get completely submerged in Piers Torday's writing magic. Definitely plays with your emotions and I would definitely recommend reading this phenomenal book. This is athree-session spelling seed for the book The Last Wildby Piers Torday. Below is the coverage from Appendix 1 of the National Curriculum 2014.

Other mentions: 1. The setting is fantastic. The way Torday paints a picture of the quarantine zones, his characters, the wild, etc, you can really picture it all in your head and feel as though you are running along with Kester and his band of animals. That being said, even my last wild guess (pun intended) could get no where near deducing that it's a children's book telling a tale of a post-apocalyptic world from a fairly original perspective - and it had to be that certain perspective, to r reach a balance between the cheerfulness and the upbeat tone that needs to exist in a book for children and the grimness of the setting. There are a total of 150 SMART Notebook screens (in one file) and each lesson is clearly marked, along with details about which lesson each chapter should be read, to aid and link to the learning. Do you like the way this story mixes up scary, sweet, cute and funny parts, or do you prefer stories that are just one thing? In between, I have just been trained as a Volunteer Reader by VRH and can’t wait to start helping children in my local London schools to enjoy books and stories like I did when I was younger.

This is a very amusing book and also very addictive. When I started reading, I could not put the book down! One of the funniest characters(I think)v is the white pigeon. He always says bad things and always the wrong things aswell.

Thus starts Kester’s journey to rescue the last animals left alive. Kester has a gift: the ability to talk and listen to animals. Carried by pigeons to The Last Wild, he reluctantly agrees to help the last remaining animals find a cure for red-eye. Along the way, he learns a lot about himself, friendship, humans, and animals. I've been a bit quiet recently because 6 weeks ago I gave birth to a lovely baby girl called Wren. Throughout my pregnancy and early weeks of being a new mum I was very distracted and found it much harder to find the time to read. This is a particular shame as obviously I adore reading. I was driving through the trees in the direction of Stafford when I saw something dark moving amongst the bushes on the right hand side of the car. […] It was definitely not a cat, it had more of a dog’s characteristics. It had a long nose and sharp, pointy ears.”THE LAST WILD is a whimsical tale, the story of a boy discovering his voice. It reminded me a little of THE LITTLE PRINCE,, maybe because of the cover and chapter heading illustrations, and because like that book, THE LAST WILD can be read on different levels. It’s one for both kids and adults. Kester lives in a world where global warming has flooded the world except for small areas of land where the population now lives. Food is no longer grown, animals no longer exist due to a disease and he has lived in an institution for the past 6 years after being taken from his family home. My first proper story was written age 13, which starts –‘Sam was a dog. And like most dogs, he was a detective.’ I was walking my dog near to Broadhurst Green and I believe I saw something that could be described as a wolf. It was not a panther and it was too large to be a dog. It was walking through the bushes without a care in the world.”

In regular demand as a speaker at schools and festivals, Piers is also a reading helper with Beanstalk, a former judge on the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, a Patron of Reading at Heathmere School and a trustee of the Pleasance Theatre. The book is about a boy who turns out he can talk to animals but he can’t talk to other humans! I really like the idea of being able to talk to animal and the adventure they go on is so exiting.😆 This book has such an amazing premise. In many books featuring animals and children, the animal often is trapped or hurt and the child saves it and rehabilitates it but this book is so much more. Our main protagonist, Kester, can only talk through his mind and only to the animals. Not only do we have vulnerable animals who are voiceless but we have a protagonist who is equally as vulnerable and voiceless. Somehow they combine to give voices to one another.Did you know you can flag iffy content? Adjust limits for Sex, Romance & Nudity in your kid's entertainment guide. Get started Close