How has the writer and illustrator made a connection with the local newspapers?

They have set it out like a normal newspaper and they have used advertising. They also use bold headings and pictures.

How has the author Jackie French used ordinary words in innovative ways to create humour?

Yes, for example, there’s a sentence in the shaggy gully times that says animals trapped in horrid poo. But poo is supposed to be zoo and how to make bum leaves but bum is supposed to be gum.

Parkview PS rappers

We think Jackie French is creative, clever and very punny with her words.

She uses puns all the time e.g. mouse code for Morse code. She changes the spelling to make things funny e.g. bee beautifully beehived.

She uses words that sound like other words but have a different meaning, for example fowl and foul. These are called homophones.

She uses metaphors like ‘Bubble and squeak’ for the mouse. We noticed she uses pictures in a clever way too, for example the coffee stain that looks like glasses on the advertisement for the optometrist.

From Colyton Rappers 4/5D

This is the 3R Olympians here. We really enjoyed looking at one of our local newspapers, The Glebe, and comparing it to The Shaggy Gully Times. We also made a comparison to larger newspapers such as the Sydney Morning Herald and the Telegraph to see what the differences were.

The Shaggy Gully Times includes many of the features of a local newspaper such as: local news of local people (not just famous people); advertisements for local businesses; ‘horrorscopes’; classifieds and the layout of the newspaper.

We looked at other newspapers for puns that created humour in the same way that Jackie French did. We discovered that there are so many ways that the newspapers play with words. At the time the most common pun was ‘A Bolt of Lightning’ when reporting about Usain Bolt’s Olympic performances.

We are really enjoying The Shaggy Gully Times. We love finding all the visual clues that the illustrator has included.
From the 3R Olympians

Yes 3V Nowrarappers – puns are using words that mean two different things. Ewe are clever!

3R Nowrarappers – I wonder how you would send an SOS in Mouse Code. Perhaps it stands for Squeak Oh Squeak.

3/4M at Lord Howe – the Bridal Creeper – an Unwanted WEEDING Guest is a wonderful title. I’m sure Jackie French would love it.

Glenhavensprinters – your local paper also has some clever titles. I especially like Floored by the economy and Fair to Medalling.

I agree 4C Manly Village Olympians, Match, Hatch and Dispatch is extremely witty.

C Ewe l8r 6S from Nowra PS. I’m off to read my favourite book, A home for a wombat by A. Hole.

Mrs Keane, Rap Coordinator at Ryde

We looked at our local newspaper, ‘The Manly Daily’, and compared it with ‘The Shaggy Gully Times’. We especially enjoyed the Horror Scopes (horoscopes). We looked at the star signs for the students in our class and laughed at some of the puns, for example “Wallabies: don’t leap to conclusions!”

We thought that Match, Hatch and Dispatch was a clever way to say Marriages, Births and Deaths.

Ciao….
4C Manly Village Public School

Things we noticed that were the same were:

Headlines, price, advertisements, look of the paper (background), letter to the editor (litters to the idioter), community news (soxcial pages), coffee cup stains, puzzle pages, horoscopes (horror scopes), library news, missing persons (have you seen these animals), wedding funeral and birth notices (match, hatch & dispatch).

The author used ‘puns’ to make the words punny!

Some examples of puns used in The Shaggy Gully Times are: Let us flea (free), Mouse code (morse), mouse to mouse (mouth to mouth) resuscitation, elephant is learning to fly, author of book “Eaten Alive” – Amos Quito, author of “Sillier and Sillier” – Ding Bat, author of book “Rock Climbing” – Ken I Doit.

C ewe all l8r, hope you don’t get the hump waiting for our next response.
C U gator, had a snapping time!
6S

Similarities are:

pictures, price, writing in columns, advertisements, articles about problems in the community, sports section, entertainment, horoscope (horror scope), TV guide, games page.

We have learned that ‘puns’ are using words to mean two different things and this makes it punny!

Goo – instead of Zoo.
Poo – instead of zoo.
Horror scope – instead of horoscope
I C Ewe – instead of I see you.
Bears were grizzly.
Camels had the hump
Lions lyin’ around.
Julius Cheeser
Hide and Squeak.

From 3V Nowra PS

We found these punny headings in our local paper -
“The Suffering of an Olympic Couch Potato”
“Fresh take on Business” (food business)
“Floored by the Economy” (a tiling company going out of business)
“Fair to Medalling” (about local Olympians’ performances)
“Greens with Envy” (top golfing greens).

Jackie’s puns made fun of people.
She’s changed human words to animal words e.g.”you” to “ewe”.
She’s crossed out letters and added letters e.g. “animals are stuck in tragic z/poo.
Human money has been changed to ‘carrotcy’ (currency).

Bye from Glenhavensprinters

Headings, contents page, TV guide, advertisements, games page, price, photographs, jobs, sports section, main article on front page with a picture.

The way the author used humour with words is called – puns. Some examples are: the bears are grizzly, lions lyin’ around, syllables stretched, I.C. Ewe, camels with the hump, mouse code, hide and squeak, mouse to mouse resuscitation.

C EWE all l8r….

3W from Nowra Public

Both have a crest.
Advertisements
A TV guide
Classifieds
Paper contents at the front
Banners
Sport
Layout of the paper the same.
Headlines.

The humour the author used was ‘Puns’. Examples are:

Hide and Squeak
Mouse to Mouse resuscitation
Mouse Code
Homonyms eg Lyin’ of lion
Camels humps (being humpy or grumpy)
Eaten alive – beaten alive.

3R thinks this book is punny!
Nowra PS