Moon Garden

Jen Betton Moon Garden

  • What is the boy doing?
  • Who are the other people in the background?
  • Where are they?
  • What time of day is it? How do you know?
  • Why are the people all here so late?
  • Why does one man have his arm in the air? Why does a woman have her hand to her face? What might they be saying?
  • Why is the flower the only source of colour in this picture? What is the significance of the red against black, white and grey?
  • Can you tell anything about how the boy is feeling?
  • Where is he going?
  • What is he going to do with the flower?
  • Why is the picture called ‘Moon Garden’?

After discussing and exploring the picture, share the following two and use them to tell the story.

Jen Betton Moon Garden 2.jpgJen Betton Moon Garden 3.jpg

Credit: Jen Betton
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3 Comments
  • Eve
    Posted at 12:44h, 29 March Reply

    I needed that flower. Night by night, I crept out to see it. The villagers warned me. I didn’t listen. Then one night I decided I would do it. I hurtled towards it and snatched it up. I didn’t know what was to come. But now I knew. The floor split. I tumbled down, down, down.

    18 years later a girl was hunting for fossils. She dug up the rotting body. The curse was placed upon her. Carried down in the family, after producing a child, the woman instantly died. Now you know the truth.

    • Belle
      Posted at 03:07h, 02 June Reply

      I like your place of words and descriptions.

  • Jessica Gutierrez
    Posted at 15:59h, 28 January Reply

    The theme or lesson of this story is that no kids or family have to be seperated because it would be so dangerous and sad to lose a family member because you always have to have someone that cares and loves you no matter what the lesson is to always be together.

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