The Rhyming Rabbit

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Funnily enough, I find it harder to write not in verse, though I feel I am now getting the hang of it! My novel THE GIANTS AND THE JONESES is going to be made into a film by the same team who made the Harry Potter movies, and I have written three books of stories about the anarchic PRINCESS MIRROR-BELLE who appears from the mirror and disrupts the life of an otherwise ordinary eight-year-old. I have just finished writing a novel for teenagers. Enjoy all the stories from Julia Donaldson and Lydia Monks: Sharing a Shell, The Princess and the Wizard, The Rhyming Rabbit, The Singing Mermaid, Sugarlump and the Unicorn, Princess Mirror-Belle and the Dragon Pox, What the Ladybird Heard, What the Ladybird Heard Next and What the Ladybird Heard on Holiday.

Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܐܲܪܢܒ݂ܵܐ‎ m ( ārnwa ), ܟܸܪܘܝܼܫ‎ ( kirwīš ) Classical Syriac: ܐܪܢܒܐ‎ f ( ʾarnəḇā ), ܠܐܓܘܣ‎ m ( lāḡōs ) I really enjoy writing verse, even though it can be fiendishly difficult. I used to memorise poems as a child and it means a lot to me when parents tell me their child can recite one of my books. As a next step activity to making the rhyming strings, we had fun playing with real objects that sounded the same but didn’t necessarily all have the same spelling patterns. For example, “bear and chair” which sound the same but are not spelt the same. This was an entirely auditory activity, placing emphasis on listening, discriminating and matching sounds, rather than writing them down or reading them, so it still comes as an early step in the process in understanding about rhyme. This book is the story of a rabbit who likes to make up poems about his surroundings and events that happen to him. Unfortunately for him, none of his family or friends appreciates his rhymes. They find it annoying when he recites his poetry aloud as they try to sleep so the Rhyming Rabbit decides to dig himself a long burrow and set off on a night time adventure, reciting poetry as he goes.Hindi: ख़रगोश m ( xargoś ), शशक (hi) m ( śaśak ), सुस्सा ( sussā ), खरहा (hi) ( kharhā ), खरगोश (hi) m ( khargoś ) From Middle English rabet, rabette, from Middle French *robotte, *rabotte or Anglo- Latin rabettus, from dialectal Old French rabotte, probably a diminutive of Middle Dutch or West Flemish robbe, perhaps related to robbe ( “ seal ” ), itself of uncertain origin; possibly some imitative verb, maybe robben, rubben ( “ to rub ” ) is used here to allude to a characteristic of the animal. See rub.

Greek: κουνέλι (el) n ( kounéli ) Ancient: δασύπους m ( dasúpous ), λεβηρίς f ( lebērís ), ( Koine ) κούνικλος m ( koúniklos ) Fewer and fewer people are eating rabbit and this has its reasons. … Rabbit meat was cheap and sometimes the only meat that would end up on people’s tables in a whole month. Rabbits then were fleshy, meaty and corpulent animals. Today’s pets are lean and cuddly and don’t invite you to put them on your plate. Does Sainsbury sell rabbit? Julia Donaldson is the outrageously talented, prize-winning author of some of the world's best-loved children's books, including modern classics The Gruffalo and The Gruffalo's Child, which together have sold over 17 million copies worldwide, and the hugely successful What the Ladybird Heard adventures. Julia also writes fiction, including the Princess Mirror-Belle books illustrated by Lydia Monks, as well as poems, plays and songs - and her brilliant live shows are always in demand. She was Children's Laureate 2011-13 and has been honoured with a CBE for Services to Literature. Julia and her husband Malcolm divide their time between West Sussex and Edinburgh. The Rhyming Rabbit loves to make up entertaining poems, inspired by everything he sees, but the other rabbits don’t appreciate his talent for rhyme. Sad and lonely, the Rhyming Rabbit sets off one starry night all on his own – will he ever find someone to share his poems with?

Malay: arnab (ms), kelinci, kucing belanda, kuilu, tapai, terwelu Jawi: ارنب‎, کلينچي‎, کوچيڠ بلندا‎, کويلو‎, تاڤاي‎, ترويلو‎ Meant "young rabbit" until the 19th c., when it came to replace the original general term coney, owing to the latter's resemblance to and use as a euphemism for cunny, "vulva" (cf. ass and donkey).