Diary of a Wombat

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Develop Criteria Sheet for Diary Writing exercise with the whole class - through discussion and revision of 'Diary of a Wombat' and previous lessons. The wombat has simple needs and lives in a wombat utopia — a rural human environment with a large supply of carrots growing in the garden, good soil for digging holes and everything else she could possibly want.

Given the crucial role that picture books have played in early childhood education, it seems pertinent to ascertain the ways in which they have been affected by digitisation. This Wombat Mindfulness Colouring Page would make the perfect cover page for the wombat’s diary entries. This is the (almost) true story of one small wombat who learnt how to train her humans – and inspired the internationally best-selling picture book Diary of a Wombat by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley.Rosie’s Walk has been heavily influential as a story in which the text says something completely different from the pictures. These have the potential to inscribe a system of beliefs about gender, cultural identity, and food that contributes to readers’ understanding of the world and themselves.

Wombats are lazy animals - cousin to the koala, which is only awake for about 45 mins a day - and oh so adorable. This article provides greater insight into the current debates about diversity and inclusion in children’s media. Diary of a Wombat, by Jackie French and Bruce Whatley, is read delightfully by favourite storyteller, Noni Hazlehurst. Family wants to dry washing on the line; wombat doesn’t want things dangling onto her nose, so chews washing on line.

Diary of a Wombat is written by Jackie French and follows the diary entries of a cheeky but loveable wombat’s mischief. Of the eighty-seven titles that contain food and have human or anthropomorphised characters, twenty-six (30 percent) contain textual or illustrative references to maternal figures involved in food preparation or provision. Okay, so until now I’ve been saying the same things, which are general rules but rules can be broken.

As he proceeds to “help” his neighbors, he demands more and more treats until he gets bored with the taste. Another (really obvious) example of an ‘accumulation big struggle’ occurs in Stuck by Oliver Jeffers in which a boy gets something stuck in a tree. We propose that the Australian publishing industry, rather than suffering from a “diversity deficit,” instead overrepresents a narrow demographic of human experiences and non-human protagonists. I really liked how the author tells this story with the wombat’s weekly schedule (which consists of sleeping, eating, and scratching).

This wombat takes us through her week with her and all that she gets up to, like sleeping, eating grass, discovering a scratching post and trying to make her humans be better pets!