Six Dinner Sid

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Eleanor Stodart (14 December 1991). "A neighbourhood too stuffy for this cool cat" (scan). The Canberra Times. p.47 . Retrieved 23 September 2021– via Trove. .. as a whole the book is attractive and one that adults will enjoy reading to children. Inga Moore (1945 – present) is an Anglo-Australian author and illustrator of children’s books. As a child, she was very imaginative and drew all the time, illustrating her own stories but also her schoolbooks and homework. After her Latin teacher told her off for her ‘silly drawing’, she sadly stopped making art for a while. Instead of going to art school she worked in lots of boring, unimaginative jobs. But one day, while working in mapmaking, she had to draw some landscapes, and rediscovered her passion. She has also said that reading Father Christmas (1973) by Raymond Briggs was a turning point in her career, as she realised creating a picture book was a wonderful, inspiring thing to do. She began working as an illustrator and returned to England to recapture her childhood memories. During her time living in Hampstead she wrote Six Dinner Sid. Sid is a slightly anthropomorphised cat, but not by very much. He’s about as cat as Judith Kerr’s Mog. Sid retains most of his catness, which means he is disloyal, opportunistic, but doesn’t ‘scheme’, as such. Since Sid doesn’t have a plan, he will be easily found out. Silo mentality is a reluctance to share information with employees of different divisions in the same company, or in this case, street.) PLAN Because [in Pythagoras Place] everybody knew [about Sid’s six dinners] nobody minded. Six Dinner Sid

Six Dinner Sid is considered a modern classic in children’s picture books. It has sold over 250,000 copies since it was published, is a Smarties Award winner, and is in the Daily Telegraph’s top 50 children’s books of all time. However, he is required to be a different cat depending on the house. Slightly older children will appreciate this because at school different teachers require different things. Younger children with blended houses living in separate houses will also get it — the idea that different situations and people require different versions of yourself.The silo mentality of the inhabitants of Aristotle street is exploited by the eponymous cat to score six dinners every day – at some psychic cost as he must remember six distinct names and identities, but the illustrations show him becoming pleasingly plump at the end of the day so the stress of performing the different roles required of him does not seem too overwhelming but perhaps that stress does precipitate the cough that exposes the dangers of the Aristotelian approach to life and brings to an end one phase of Sid’s heroic life, dedicated to the pursuit of life, liberty and six dinners a day and the rejection of the bourgeois anthropocentrism of the Aristotelians. Goodreads reviewer Sitty had a strong personality and presence (like my child), and I sometimes found tins of real cat food in my supermarket trolley.

Inga Moore has beautifully depicted two British streets. One street contrasts with the other, in a didactic kind of way to be fair — in Aristotle Street the neighbours don’t talk to each other, whereas in Pythagoras Place, one street over, they do. But that’s not the intended takeaway, weakly lampshaded by the fact that he’s only taking it for good measure (it’s probably a placebo for the owners). When Sid is made to take six different doses of medicine I worry for his health. That can’t be good. Pip Jones (31 January 2014). "Pip Jones's top 10 cats in children's books". The Guardian . Retrieved 23 September 2021. It's a sweet story of a cat who really thinks he's got it sussed, with all six owners believing Sid belongs to them… until they all find out. Busted! And now, my father has died, and his widower returned to the land of his birth, leaving Pippa and Katie Cat needing a new home. Neighbours were popping in daily, but the cats were spending more time away from home, probably seeking human company.

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Think instead of the idiomatic expression ‘a dose of your own medicine’. Drinking disgusting medicine is punishment for Sid, for being disloyal and disingenuous. (For being a cat, basically.) ANAGNORISIS Numicon Shapes are a handy resource for number activities with young children. Children learn to identify each Numicon Shape and associate it with a number. A sly commentary on the atomisation and breakdown of traditional social cohesion in urban communities that possibly also contrasts Aristotle and Pythagoras as philosophical and social role models in the form of a children's picture book.