By Anthony Browne
We’ve spent a lot of time on this book. And to finish off we wrote about it. Some of us discussed the plot, some the characters and some have looked carefully at the illustrations.
VOICES IN THE PARK I like this book because the illustrations tell you the story and there is lots of details that are difficult to spot. Like, in the third voice the mongrel Albert changes tail with the pedigree dog Victoria.
Claudia
I’m good at climbing trees. So I showed her how to do it. She told me her name was. Smudge a funny name, I know. But she quite nice. Then mummy caught us talking together and I had to go home. Maybe Smudge will be there next time?
Amelia
My point of view in the tree…
I like the picture of it because the colours mix together very nicely. I like climbing trees like that because it’s exploring every individual little leaf. I also like the picture because it looks like new sprouted ones.
About the next picture… In this picture I really like the lovely calm sky. I can tell that Anthony Browne took time and effort doing the trees. I admire his way of delicacy.
About the picture with Smudge and
her dad
It’s SO stripy and colourful. One of trees is a strawberry, I wish I could eat it! I love the bushes that have blue, white and yellow.
Charles mum being furious…
She has this expression that I can’t exactly describe. She is a little bit like the queen but a bit scarier.
Maia
Voices in the park Cristina My favourite voice was voice four, because it had bright colours and it was summer. I love summer! Anthony Browne never chooses too many colours just one or two! He gets inspired from painters, like RenĂŠ Magritte.
Voice one It was time for Madame Zizi to take Victoria and Charles for a walk. In the park Madame Zizi shooed away a dog called Albert, but it sprinted back. While she was sitting down she was planning what she and Charles was going to have for dinner.
Voice two Mr Johnny had to get out of the house because he had to take Albert for a walk and Smudge too.
By Gustavo The thing I like most of all in the book is the illustrations. I like really like how Anthony Browne draws. He is really imaginative. The drawing is really important. It tells you lots of things, like when they are happy there are bright things and when they are sad there are dark things. Another example is in the illustration the dog changes tail with the other dog and I think that means they are friends. There are lots of details: there are faces in the stone. And in the park in the trees you see gorilla faces. Anthony Browne changed the font for Charles, his mum, the dad and Smudge. Charles’ part of the book has upright handwriting and Smudge wicked handwriting. This is because Charles’ mum was really posh and Smudge’s dad was poorer. In the book mum sees a mongrel and she says he is a scruffy mongrel and it is not a scruffy mongrel. She is not in a good humour at all.
My story of Voices in the Park Penelope I like this book because it has different points of view for the characters and illustrations. It starts at the mother’s house. She and Charles were taking Victoria (their dog) for a walk. She let Victoria off her lead .From the picture it looks like Charles is bored. (I know I would be.) Then when she looked where Charles was sitting but there was one thing wrong‌ CHARLES WAS MISSING!
She kept calling him: CHARLES , CHARLES . Finally, she found him. She is very posh and she does look after Charles like a very sensible mother, but maybe she goes a little bit too far!
Voices in the Park By Rozenn The illustrations in this book remind me of some Mondrian pictures that we did in class because Anthony Browne uses very bright colours so does Mondrian. The text has different fonts.
The illustrations also show how the characters are feeling for example when Charles goes and talks to Smudge. The mum of Charles doesn’t like it when he goes and talks to other people so they had to go and when they went there was a tree on fire to show that the mum was angry. There is also different point of views one point of view for Charles one point of view for Charles’s mum one for Smudge and one for Smudges dad. I like this story because there are a lot of differences and you can kind of feel what the character is feeling.
Voices in the Park by Fernando
I love the way that Anthony Browne does his books.
First Voice It was time to take Victoria the dog, and her son Charles for a walk in the park. Then Victoria went to play with a different dog in the park and the mother asked Charles to sit with her and then he was sad, but he asked her if he could go to play but she told him that he couldn’t. And in a moment when the mother of Charles was thinking what are they going to eat he went to play with another girl but when she was going to ask something to him she saw that he wasn’t there! She shouted Charles! Charles! Charles! And when she saw him talking with a strange girl the mother said shoo shoo and she said come Charles, Victoria. Then they went home.
Voice two There was a poor, weird man in a poor, dirty house with a dog and a daughter called Smudge and he was
thinking if Smudge and the dog wanted to go to the park and they said yes. Then the street was so so so poor with a strange Mona Lisa. When they were in the park the father was looking for a job in the newspaper. Then they were laughing and at that moment the street was not poor any more. The Mona Lisa and another man were dancing and the gorilla Santa Claus was dancing like a professional one.
Voice three It was a boy bored in his house waiting for his mother to ask her if he can go to the park with Victoria. Then when they were in the park he was hoping that he could have fun like Victoria. Then he sat on a bench and a voice spoke to him: Hi! Do you want to play with me please? I t was a girl, unfortunately. Then they went to play on the slide and he thought she was going so fast! Then the mother of Charles told him that he needed to go home to have the dinner and then go to bed.
Voice four It was time to take Albert to the park and Charles too, then in the park it was Smudge!!! Then they played like in the other voices and Albert played with Victoria and I think that Albert loves Victoria and Victoria loves Albert. Then they went to a place to dance and they do somersault and they were so happy, then they go to a place and Charles gave to Smudge a flower and when he went home he put the flower in a nice cup of tea and then the father ask Smudge if he can do for him a cup of tea and she said yes. I like this book because some pictures say if he/she is happy or sad because if it has a dark colour it means that he/she is sad or if it has a light colour it means that they are happy.
Voices In The Park By Pablo
First Voice: I adore how Anthony Browne illustrated the first page. It has incredibly realistic things, for example the house; it’s a very posh house with two floors, a copper roof, and a very charming garden. They have an orange woodland next to their house. We can see how Anthony Browne made the trees with titchy spots and the grassy ground. Charles, the little chimp, and his mum went for a walk to the park. Her mum took Victoria, her pedigree dog, too. Victoria is a golden dog with stretched ears and a silver collar. She’s got dark brown eyes and a black nose. A mongrel dog appeared from behind Victoria. They started chasing each other. Charles’ mum told Charles to sit on the bench. Meanwhile, when his mum was not looking, Charles went away to talk to this girl. Her mum called Charles. She was very cross with him. They walked home in silence.
Second Voice:
The first illustration on the second voice is really well done. Smudge’s dad has got some human arms, but he is a gorilla! His dad needed to go out of the house, so they took the dog and Smudge to the park. The street is sad and pale and the Mona Lisa is crying. The Laughing Cavalier is dejected. The trees have no leaves and it’s cold weather. There is a beggar outfitted as Santa Clause.
Voices in the Park By Ryan I really like how Anthony Browne uses some illustrates as metaphors like when Charles and his mom walked home in silence when the tree is on fire it is a metaphor showing how the furious mom character is feeling. Anthony Browne changed the font for Charles and Smudge, posh for the boy and smudgy for the girl. Voice One Charles and his mom with their dog (Victoria) were going to the park. SIT DOWN, HERE she ordered but I sneaked off and talk to some girl who was very nice. Then his mom said it was time to go home.
Voices in the Park - by Clara I love this book because it’s mysterious. The pictures tell you the story and there is a lots of details in them. It all started when Charles went for a walk with the pedigree called Victoria. We have four points of view in the book. From the mum’s point of view, we read: I let Victoria off her lead when a stupid mongrel came and chased her all around the Park. We all went to the Park and sat on a bunch. We didn’t move. After a few minutes when I was planning what to eat. Charles was gone. I called him like an angel voice. (Charles where are you!) I went everywhere in the Park and I saw him talking with a weird girl. I felt cross. I called him and Victoria and we went home.
From the dad’s point of view. I needed to get out of the house because I felt bored at home I was watching TV. So me and Smudge went to the Park. The street that we toked to go to the Park was extremely filthy it was a miserable, depressed street. But we still went to the Park. We had arrived to the Park. I let Albert of his lead and I wish that I could have half
of the energy his got. I sat on a bunch and searched for a job I know it was waste of time but I needed a job.
My Voices In The Park review By Alicia My favorite Voice was Voice four (Smudge’s point of view). I liked it because it has lots of colours. It had lots of bright colours. Not so many secondary colours. I love how Antony Browne does the illustrations. He takes lots of ideas from lots of painters.
Mum: Voice one starts when:
Charles, his mother and their dog (Victoria) were going to the park. When Charles’ mother let Victoria of her lead she met a mongrel and she shooed it away, but it came back again. She ordered Charles to sit on the bench. She said “SIT HERE!” Then he sat down. Then when Charles’ mum looked round he wasn’t there. She was scared. She shouted, “CHARLES! CHARLES! WHERE ARE YOU?! COME BACK HERE AT ONCE!” Then she saw him talking to a rough looking girl. She said “COME HERE NOW! WE ARE GOING HOME! PLEASE VICTORIA!” So they went home in silence.
Dad: Voice two starts when: The dad needed to go out of the house. So he and his daughter Smudge and their dog Albert went to the park. On the way there it was a boring, strange street. When they got there, Smudge’s father let Albert off the lead. The dad wanted as much energy as Albert. Albert loved the park. Especially when there were other dogs. This time there was a dog called Victoria. Albert was very
happy! He sniffed Victoria’s bum, but Victoria didn’t mind. Meanwhile the dad was just reading the news until it was time to go. All the way home Smudge was chatting away like mad. Her father was very happy so the picture that Anthony Browne did with it was a happy picture too.