The Very Old Donkey
No. of pages 20
Published: 2011
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There is a very old donkey who is too old to pull his master's cart. With his best friend Robbie, he goes on a search to find new work. This story is for children aged four to eight, who will delight in both the simplicity and originality of the story itself, as well as in the colorful illustrations by David Newbatt.
The Very Old Donkeyoriginates from storytelling performances given in kindergartens and schools in Scandinavia and Germany, whose students knew little or no English. The recognizable animals and their sounds and the element of repetition make this story especially suitable for acting out for early stages of learning English.
Robbie and the Very Old Donkey meet five different animals, each of which does work that very old donkeys are not particularly suited to perform. Will Robbie find work that the Very Old Donkey can do?
The book is printed on 50% recycled material using vegetable-based inks.
There are 20 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2011 by Wynstones Press .
New Zealander Michael Burton is based in Sydney and works as a writer, speech performer, actor, speech therapist, and voice teacher. He is the writer of the script for an international project to perform a play that follows on from the four initiation dramas of Rudolf Steiner. He gives performances in a number of countries of his one-man drama, Shakespeare and the Mystery of the Human Being (2003). David Newbatt is an artist and teacher who lives and works at a Camphill Community for young adults with special needs in Aberdeen, Scotland. He also teaches art at the Aberdeen Waldorf School. David works in a wide variety of mediums, mainly watercolors, pastels, and acrylics. He has illustrated various books, including a story by Novalis, the poem of Olaf Asteson, and Goethe's fairy tale. He is also a prolific mural painter. His works have been exhibited throughout Europe.