Another Jill Tomlinson story. And we enjoyed it even more than the last one.

I’m going to award this one five stars, because there is so much to talk about through it, especially issues relating to serving each other and growing up and taking responsibility.
(but it doesn’t come across as “preachy” - its just a good yarn)

At the end of this reading, I asked the children what they learnt from this book.

Apart from the gorilla information (that they eat bamboo and sticks, they don’t like getting wet, they make nests for sleeping and old gorillas get too heavy to sleep up a tree, the young are very small, the old get silver hairs on their backs), they picked up some of the “character” lessons:

• help each other
• be sorry when you have hurt someone
• be kind to animals
• help children younger than you…..and the elderly too….and I suppose you could help anyone for that matter
• catch someone if they’re falling out of a tree
• work with each other

L7 reminded us of the most important lesson:

“Bang your chest or a tree stump and roar if there’s danger.”