Penguin Young Readers Factsheets Level 3 The Hundred Teacher’s Notes and One Dalmatians Summary of the story Pongo and his wife, Missis, live happily in London with their owners, Mr and Mrs Dearly. One day, the nasty Cruella de Vil moves into the neighbourhood. She likes fur coats and takes an unhealthy interest in the Dalmatians’ beautiful coats. Pongo and Missis become parents which is a happy time until the puppies go missing. Pongo and Missis set out to save their puppies from Cruella de Vil, helped by friendly dogs along the way. They discover that Cruella has stolen many, many other puppies. The adventure ends happily when the Dearlys agree to take care of all the rescued Dalmatians and Cruella goes away. Background to the Reader Dodie Smith (1896-1990) was the pseudonym sometimes used by C. L. Anthony. Born in Manchester, Smith wrote children’s stories and novels and also plays and several volumes of an autobiography. The Hundred and One Dalmatians was published in 1956 and remains popular until this day. It was made into a Walt Disney film, ‘One Hundred and One Dalmatians’, in 1961 and re-made in 1996 as ‘101 Dalmatians’. In 2000 a new film ‘102 Dalmatians’ was released. Dodie Smith herself continued to write into the 1980s. Topics and themes

Animals Dogs are the main theme of the book. Family The Dearly family have no children, but they The story, which is told by two dogs, Missis and have two dogs, which begin their own family when Pongo, describes life for pet dogs. Other themes are: the puppies arrive. How are dog families different Missis and Pongo have puppies; the different breeds from human ones? of dogs; dogs in town; dogs in the country or on a The Hundred and One Dalmatians Film/media/TV farm. With older pupils work can be done on the use The story has also been filmed by Disney, which of animals for their fur. many pupils may have seen. It may be available for Colours The dogs and Cruella’s clothes are black classrooms. and white. The dogs become dirty and look black, Friendships when they are washed they are white again. Are Missis and Pongo meet other dogs when they look black and white colours or are they the absence of for their puppies. They don’t know one another, but colour? Are they opposites? help them find their puppies. How have pupils found The country The story takes place in both town their friends? and country, which can be contrasted from the Numbers illustrations. The story is full of numbers. It provides pupils with practice in counting. Many pages could be used for speed counting – who are the first pair to count the Making use of the Reader dog/spots on the page?

Invent-a-Pet Begin by asking the pupils to describe which one. Tell them you will only answer yes or no. the dogs in the Reader. There are, of course, lots of Give the pupils examples: is it a man? Is he a good Dalmatians plus, on pages 15, 17, and 18 there are man? for example. illustrations of different breeds (Labradors, Corgis, Dalmatian Hand-Puppets Give the pupils one Pekinese). Following on from vocabulary work, for white sock (or white paper bag) each. Using a black example, black or brown, spotty or plain, large or felt-tipped pen, the pupils work together to decorate small, long- or short-haired, ask the pupils to give a their Dalmatian hand-puppets. Then, in pairs, one description of their ideal dog and then draw it. can be Missis and the other. From short prompts The Yes-No game Prepare some questions such as, ‘what do Missis and Pongo say to each beforehand on the characters in the story. Tell the other when they find that their puppies are gone?’, pupils you are thinking of one of the characters from ‘What do Missis and Pongo say to each other when

the story and they have to ask questions to find out Level 3 they are in Cruella de Vil’s house?’ their puppets talk to one another.

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