Text 30: Little Grey Rabbits Pancake Day

Text 30: Little Grey Rabbits Pancake Day

1. Context: Written by Allison (1884 – 1976)

   • Best known for her children’s series about little grey rabbit and Sam pig
   • She began writing to support herself and her son financially after she became a widow

2. Context of production: Intended for children

   • Allison Uttely started writing children’s books to support herself financially
     • Written in the 1930’s

3. Layout of presentation: Small paragraphs and simple sentences due to it being written for children ‘Oh its hot said hare’

   • Blue Font
   • This can be linked to text 23: Jonathan Crisp as it uses colour to represent the heat of the crisps, illustrations, different colour font and personification ‘Crisps of natural character’
   • Illustrations
   • Last paragraph has rhyming couplets

4. Form and structure: The text has small paragraphs mostly made up of simple and compound sentences ‘Eat it cried Rabbit

   • This compares to Text 4: Grandpa’s soup, which has simple sentences ‘He knows I will grow up and pine for it’
     • It also has one long paragraph which is written in a stream of consciousness

5. Sound patterning: Rhymes, alliteration ‘Pancake day pancake day’

   • This can be compared to Text 4: Grandpas soup as it uses rhymes and alliteration ‘Hough which rhymes with loch’

6. Word choice: Monosyllabic, its intended for small children so it’s easy and simple to read

   • ‘OFF’ is in capitals
   • Can be compared with text 1: Butchers shop ‘They hang’ as this gives a visual representation of them hanging
     • ‘Meaty smile’ Butcher described as a piece of meat
     • Polysyllabic, gives a negative description of the butcher

7. Grammar: Very simple sentences so it’s easy to read

   • Few compound sentences