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Flamingo Boy A young autistic boy lives on his parents’ farm among the salt flats of the Camargue in the South of France, an area populated by flamingos: I marveled at the elegance of these creatures, at the oddness of their balletic gait, and their absurd, outsize curved bills, at the incongruity of their startling pinkness. Their stick-like legs seemed to be wading backwards through the water, and yet, impossibly, they were moving forward. There was no logic to their knee joints. Their bills were fishing backwards too. How did they do that? They could stand one-legged in this wild wind and not fall over. They ran on water to take off and land. How did they do that? Writing challenge Choose another animal and write a description of it in the first person, as if you are looking at it. Morpurgo masterclass Just like Michael Morpurgo, you could use: - well-chosen vocabulary, including interesting adjectives - comparisons, including similes and metaphors (balletic gait; stick-like legs)
- the things that make your creature different to other similar animals - questions to show your wonder at what you’re seeing (How did they do that?)
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