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1 1000., : sales@pelicanpub.com : tudy uide for hawn isser he ast nake in reland ritten and llustrated by eter. elling lassroom activities to go along with this book include: ord uzzles tudy uide created eter. elling riting and critical thinking exercises ames and ctivities ookmark emplate by azes

2 ! fter all, a picture book is more than just words. ithin the pictures are th ings you might overlook if you don t pause to smell the shamrocks. tems may be historical, mythical, magical or in someway refer to reland, the rish, something rish or just a bad pun. ook around, maybe you ll find others. age 5: hough rish aelic, eltic if you will, is the language of reland, this page contains a elsh word (ffarwelio) because hawn visited hales (ales). age 6. potato bug munches away. e--or is it a she? t is hard to tell with potato bugs. n any event, the bug represents the great potato famine that caused such an influx of rish immigrants to the.. age 7. ign post. rom the song with that line t s a long way to ipperary, it s a long way to go hope you catch the puns and word play like rich tatoes..po tatoes. age 8. waneeee. ccording to the obherchu legend, the otter turned bad children into beautiful swans and placed them on his lake (lenade ough). ou would think he otter know better. age 11. ne of the many rock groups in this part of the world other than 2. age 12. he address on the tree stump home (of dmund atterjack) is the date t. atrick drove the snakes from reland. (441 ). he cat in the cap tells me that is an rish arp he is playing. don t think he is a liar. don t think it is a lyre either. age 18. s that ndrew croundhog on the wall? hy, sure it is. nd everyone knows that rin o ragh means reland orever. ight? peaking of rish yarns, that ball of yarn on the floor could be rish wool. t sure isn t rish silk. age 20. otice that on pp 20 & 21 access to the outside is shut off. hat means the leprechauns nosing around are unable to see or hear where the gold is. h-! age 21. up, that is ndrew croundhog s shadow on the wall.

3 age 23. here to start, where to start? rom the left? he flag of t. atrick. (f you combine the flags of t. atrick of reland, t. ndrew of cotland and t. eorge of ngland, you wind up with the nion ack of reat ritain.) he hill (croagh) where t. atrick stood to ring his bell is now called the hill of t. atrick. aewyn uccat was t. atrick s birth name (hey, his momma didn t call him t. atrick when he was born, ya know?) nd finally, on the rock on the right, a eltic ross. age 24. ou all knew that dog was an rish setter, right? age 25. eltic knot on the rocks please. t. atrick s bell on the right hand side. nd here is an insider s note. ll but 3 pages have at least one leprechaun and this isn t one of them. nly the foot of the wee one can be seen on this page. t is jutting out from under the bell. ( ve told you two of the three pages without leprechauns. ou find the other one and figure out there is no little folk there.) nd that 98 km marker actually stands for the revolution of 98, the one that is responsible for more rish ballads and protest songs than almost any other event in rish history. age 26. rendan the xplorer is a famous rish uh explorer. is paint is merald sle, which is yet another moniker for reland. age 27. won t bother explaining the humor of the road sign, but the bumper stickers are ove reland (symbols) and ising of the oon afé. y the ising of the oon is one of the all-time famous rish songs about the revolt in 98. age 28. ince the fairy is saying tree in aelic (crann), do you suppose we stretch the humor too far if we call those crann berry trees? don t want to get bogged down here so we will move to the close. age 32. he limerick originates from the rish town of the same name.

4 ames and ctivities ide gold, foil-wrapped coins and have a leprechaun treasure hunt. tudents draw their own hawns. rite names on the bottom so they can t be seen. ine the snakes up belly side down. hen play a trivia game. se the glossary or events in the story. very time a student gets an answer correct, he gets to pick off one snake. ee which student s snake becomes the last snake in your classroom. tudents lay head to foot to form a human snake. easure the snake. hallenge the other classes to see if anyone can beat your snake s length. lay rish songs and sing along as you drink green ool-id and eat potato chips. ord cramble nscramble these words using hawn s glossary to help. (ote: he rish words for bat appear as separate words.) ucas gremas ean arcn gchul annges eaffiowe ndham ab eadheid iving ne aub aargie aarti ahhulcan hodubhar occ habe estholli atsu nthair heapran ainddrec aithhlbg haiancs haiarel 1000, 70053

5 aste of reland earching for an island full of snakes is hungry business. f your class of wee ones needs a little snack, try feeding them a tasty scone. few variations are listed below the basic recipe, but feel free to use your favorite flavoring. hawn isser s cones asic ecipe: ngredients: 3/4 pound flour * 1 tsp. baking powder * 3/4 tsp. salt * 3 tbs. margarine * 2/3 cup milk (/-). ift together flour, salt and baking powder. ut in the shortening. ix in the milk to make a soft dough. nead, roll to approximately ¼ thickness and cut out in approximately 3 circles. re-heat oven to 450. ake minutes. hawn recommends a no stick cooking spray or no stick cookware but you may grease the pan if that s your style. (erves six) ried ruit cone: dd 1/4 pound raisins, or currants, or both. ncrease baking time by 2 to 3 minutes. pple cone: dd to the basic recipe 2 oz. ugar * 1 cup shredded or minced apples and 1 beaten gg. ix well, and bake 25 minutes in a well greased pan at , 70053

6 hawn s aelic ord earch hawn isser s nglish ord earch

7 hawn 'isser's ot ' old ho wants the pot o gold? ross out the following words and find the answer revealed above. hawn isser: he ast nake in reland, elican ublishing ompany, anuary ritten & llustrated by eter. elling *, 70053

8 hawn s aelic ord earch olution (ver,own,irection) (12,1,)(4,1,)(16,9,) (14,1,)(13,6,)(8,9,) (10,15,)(8,6,)(6,8,) (16,8,)(15,11,) (8,1,)(1,9,)(11,12,) (13,10,)(13,1,) (1,10,)(6,10,) (2,1,)(5,1,) (12,15,)(13,7,) (16,16,)(3,5,) (1,14,)(4,8,) hawn 'isser nglish ord earch olution (ver,own,irection) (3,9,) (9,1,) (11,9,) (11,12,) (6,6,) (3,8,) (10,1,) (2,6,) (14,1,) (14,9,) (15,2,) (5,8,) (4,5,) (4,11,) (7,13,) (15,10,) (9,5,) (1,12,) (7,1,) hawn 'isser's ot ' old olution (ver,own,irection) (15,4,) (5,13,) (4,8,) (10,4,) (13,9,) (4,11,) (7,9,) (10,3,) (9,1,) (1,13,) (8,9,) (5,6,) (6,6,) (15,14,) (10,9,) nswer:! 1000 *, 70053

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10 reate your own hawn isser ookmarks! opy on heavy cardstock, cut and color. ive to family and friends!! 1000 *, 70053

11 llustrated and ritten by eter. elling bout the ook n this fast-paced new twist on an old tale, whimsical snake hawn isser returns to his native reland after visiting whales in ales. e discovers that all of his snake friends have vanished, as has all the leprechaun s gold. hawn works to solve the mystery, using his wits to avoid being eaten by other inhabitants of the merald sle. hings look pretty hopeless until hawn is befriended by dmund, the natterjack toad, and athleen, the orange mouse. ogether, they set out to right a wrong, but will they solve the mystery in time? ill they find the leprechauns gold, or did obherchu the iant tter take it? hat did the monk named atrick have to do with all those snakes disappearing? augh your way along the trail of the disappearing snakes to find the answers to these and other mysteries of the last snake in reland. bout the uthor eter. elling is an illustrator/author/artist from ndianapolis who works in the adult and in the children s markets. elican ublishing ompany publishes his children s picture books. e also is a columnist/illustrator for, a literary-art magazine. e is married, the father of four sons and the grandfather of three granddaughters. eel free to visit his website at hawn isser: the ast nake in reland by eter. elling 32 pp. 10 x color illustrations : $15.95