Troll Stinks

Themes: Digital skills, Fairy tales, Health and life Skills 

Connections to the Curriculum in EnglishThis book is a twisted fairy tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff addressing Internet safety. The story can contribute to developing students’ critical and reflected behaviour online. Furthermore, this is a rhyming story and encourages young learners to explore the rhythm of the English language and work with pronunciation. 

Book cover

Author and publisher: Jeanne Willis, Andersen Press 

Summary:  Billy Goat and his best friend, Cyril, have great fun with Farmer’s mobile phone messing around taking all kinds of stupid selfies and making silly phone calls to friends. Then they decide to play a trick on the troll, and they send the troll a really nasty message. But when they reach the troll’s cave, they do not find a big bad troll as expected; instead they meet a small troll who is very frightened by their cyberbullying.

      Suitable for students in years: 5-10 

Tags: Digital skills, Fairy tales, Health and life skills
Published Dec. 29, 2021 5:34 PM - Last modified Sep. 20, 2022 2:33 PM