Characters Everywhere!

This week we have continued our English unit on ‘Characterisation’. We thought really hard about all the places we find characters – movies, books, plays, games, comics, cartoons, songs, television shows, Fairy Tales, nursery rhymes . . . . and the list goes on! We then thought about some of the characters we find in each of these and how they are similar or different to each other. We found that in lots of stories there are ‘good’ and ‘bad’ characters. We also discovered that the way we find out what these characters are like is through the words and language the author / character uses and also their behaviours, shown through the pictures or images that we see.

We are putting together a list of questions to send to Gus Gordon, one of our favourite Australian author/illustrators. Gus has kindly agreed to answer our questions and share his thoughts on characterisation.