Ayelet's Day Out

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Family reading advice

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A demonstration of the characters enhances the reading experience, peaks toddlers’ curiosity, and helps them focus on the story. You can add a suitable voice or hand gesture for each character, and repeat it each time it appears, for instance: arm-flailing to denote the bird, feelers to denote the ladybug, or making a fist to denote the snail’s shell.

Rinat Hoffer illustrated and wrote many Israeli children’s classics, including Hannan the Gardener [Hanan HaGanan] and Cloud on a Stick [Anan Al Makel]. Her unique amusing style perfectly incorporates rich language, imaginativeness, and rhymes into her texts and illustrations. For her prolific work, Hoffer has won many awards.

Encountering animals on our day out

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You can discuss the animals you encounter on your way home, on trips, or in your general vicinity. Have you encountered one of the animals mentioned in the book? What other animals have you encountered? Where does each of these animals live?

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Ayelet’s Day Out features on Didi and Yarden’s Sifriyat Pijama podcast too. Scan the code and enjoy listening to

Illustrated clues

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The appearance of each animal in the book is preceded by textual and Illustrated clues. Try to guess which animal is about to appear at each stage. You can also play a guessing game – each family member in turn can mimic one of the animals in the book using voices and movements, while the other players try to guess which one it is.

A day out at home

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 You can take animals of various sizes, and try to carry them all just like Ayelet while taking a walk around the house. Which one fits in your pocket? Which one can stand on your head? Perhaps you can find some other way that Ayelet has not tried yet.