No Queen Today! BIG BOOK

No Queen Today! is a humorous story about a queen who refuses to wear queen clothes because being a queen is boring.  But when the townspeople advertise for a king, she’s outraged.  She realizes she has to go back to being a queen.  However, she designates one day a year as a “no queen day.”  Several repeating language patterns tell the story in dialogue and narrative.

The story is told as a sequence of events.  A variety of sentence types are used.  Quotation marks, exclamation marks, question marks, ellipses, apostrophes, and commas are used. Bold face is used for emphasis.  The queen’s spoken dialogue is in a distinctive font.  An advertisement appears in art.  Humorous illustrations support the text directly and add meaning.

The contractions don’t, won’t, and mustn’t used.  Singular/plural pairs include main/maids and person/people.  The homonyms one/won, heard/herd, and wailing/whaling appear.  Interest words include flap, fluster, bore, horrendous, and palace.

This title is from the Sails Literacy series. Hook readers and ignite their curiosity - over 700 levelled texts with bright, colourful, sophisticated designs.