Rang-tan is the story of a little girl and her orangutan friend forced from her forest home. Indonesian rainforests are destroyed to grow field upon field of dirty palm oil used to make the everyday products we use. It doesn’t need to be like this, big brands have a responsibility to make sure that the palm oil used in their products isn’t made at the greatest cost for our forests. There are only about 110,000 orangutans left in the world, as their habitats are being destroyed to make palm oil Published in collaboration with Greenpeace and based on their film that became a viral sensation, There’s a Rang-tan in My Bedroom includes When a little girl discovers a mischievous orangutan on the loose in her bedroom, she can’t understand why it keeps shouting OOO! at her shampoo and her chocolate. But when Rang-tan explains that there are humans running wild in her rainforest, burning down trees so they can grow palm oil to put in products, the little girl knows what she has to do: help save the orangutans! There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroomis a powerful new picture book reminding us that we can all make a difference in the world.

There’s a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom is a beautiful book which highlights an important message to young children in an easy and accessible way. My children have asked to read this book repeatedly since it arrived I would recommend it for every young child. The children were exceptionally thoughful and were genuinely moved by both the poem and the advert. They certainly displayed their Secret of Succes 'To understand others'. When a little girl discovers a mischievous orangutan in her bedroom, she can’t understand why it keeps shouting at her shampoo and her chocolate. But when Rang-tan explains that there are humans running wild in her rainforest, burning down trees so they can grow palm oil to put in products, the little girl knows what she has to do: help save the orangutans! Was Rang-tan banned?

There's a Rang-Tan in My Bedroom

The story is told from the little girl’s point of view. Could you rewrite part of it in the third person. Robin Stevens, author of Murder Most Unladylike, on how her main character Daisy is coming out as gay The positives and negatives of farming palm oil, including deforestation which is referred to in the poem. Today in our lesson we have been exploring the poem 'There's a Rang-Tan in my bedroom', which was created by Greenpeace, an environmental charity which focuses on protecting the natural world.

The film ends with the young girl vowing to tell Rang-tan's story. An epilogue is dedicated to 'the 25 orangutans we lose every day'. This decision provoked a storm of controversy, and the resulting publicity helped the film reach more than 30 million online views. Watch Monster – the sequel to Rang Tan

Written in collaboration with @greenpeaceuk , the theme of this book is (unsurprisingly) saving our planet and the author and illustrator have done an excellent job of conveying this message in the sadness of the orangutan when she tells the girl why she’s in her home.

Read the forward for this book by Emma Thompson. Could you write your own foreword for a different book? Oh Rang-tan in my bedroom now I do know what to do. I’ll fight to save your home and I’ll stop you feeling blue. Actress Emma Thompson, brand ambassador for Greenpeace, has lent her voice to the environmental charity's latest work – an illustration of the loss of rainforest habitat in Indonesia at the hands of palm oil plantation owners. Catherine Doyle on new book The Lost Tide Warriors, a children's adventure full of Irish myth and magicIn English, Class 4 are currently learning about poetic voice. We have been identifying the theme of different poems and what the poet is trying to say. So far we have explored the poems 'Cats' and 'Work and Play' by Ted Hughes as well as the poem 'Rat Race' by John Agard. This book has been a brilliant catalyst for discussion with the Littles, particularly my five year old, who has today written a letter to “the boss of the chocolate factory” to ask them to use only responsibly sourced palm oil and not that which has come from destroying swathes of our rainforests. We are happy to share with you our latest work. motherlondon.com/ and passion-pictures.com/uk/animation-studios/ called us to be part of this rescue mission. We brought Rang Tans story to life to show what's at stake if we continue to produce and consume palm oil at this pace. The scenes have been carefully hand-crafted and animated using various techniques including cell-frame, 3D, 2D and VR to bring to life the hand drawn animation in a flow of action through immersive camera. A fantastic team made it happen.