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Dad's promise
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040444

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), Dad's Promise is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Narrative Recounts, a strand which motivates children to explore their personal responses and make links to their own experiences. Each story in this set of nine marks a significant event from someone's childhood. Retold by Richard Brown, Dad's Promise is set in Edinburgh in the 1970s and tells of the one time that Dad didn't keep his promise to eight-year-old Kate. Narrative recounts also provide excellent models for children's own writing. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

Dancing in the soot
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040447

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), Dancing in Soot is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Narrative Recounts, a strand which motivates children to explore their personal responses and make links to their own experiences. Each story in this set of nine marks a significant event from someone's childhood. Retold by Richard Brown, Dancing in Soot tells the true story about Deirdre George and her family. It happened in 1955, when Deirdre was eight and her brother was six. Deirdre was dressed as a princess, ready to go to the fair. Deirdre's mum tells her to keep her shoes and socks clean whilst the grown ups get ready. Deirdre agrees and then goes out to play with her brother ...the end to this humorous story is remembered by all her family! This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

Fairy Charm : The Third Wish
By Rodda, Emily
Barcode # 040545

Follow my leader
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040455

Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), Follow My Leader is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories with Familiar Settings, a strand where children can identify with the setting and characters and make links with their own experiences. Follow My Leader is one of nine books written by Tony Bradman and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Each story features the children of Class 1 and their teacher, Miss Miller. Young readers will easily relate to the kind of situations in which the children of Class 1 find themselves, and will enjoy meeting the same characters across the nine books. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

A Friend for Kate
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040459

Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), A Friend for Kate is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories with Familiar Settings, a strand where children can identify with the setting and characters and make links with their own experiences. A Friend for Kate is one of nine books written by Tony Bradman and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Each story features the children of Class 1 and their teacher, Miss Miller. Young readers will easily relate to the kind of situations in which the children of Class 1 find themselves, and will enjoy meeting the same characters across the nine books. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

Ghost Song
By Price , Susan
Barcode # 040546

A tale of how Ambrosi challenges the call of a shaman to be his apprentice and how the repercussions of his defiance culminates in a thrilling journey to the Gate of the Ghost World.

The Haystack
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040449

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), The Haystack is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Narrative Recounts, a strand which motivates children to explore their personal responses and make links to their own experiences. Each story in this set of nine marks a significant event from someone's childhood. Retold by Richard Brown, The Haystack is set in Yeovil, Somerset in 1943, during the Second World War. Joan Bailey and her little brother Brian lived by a field in which there was a giant haystack. Brain loved to climb up the haystack like a monkey and jump about on top of it, shouting his head off. He always went near the edge. Nobody realised how dangerous the haystack could be ...Narrative recounts also provide excellent models for children's own writing. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

Here comes everyone
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040452

Imran and the Watch
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040460

Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), Imran and the Watch is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories with Familiar Settings, a strand where children can identify with the setting and characters and make links with their own experiences. Imran and the Watch is one of nine books written by Tony Bradman and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Each story features the children of Class 1 and their teacher, Miss Miller. Young readers will easily relate to the kind of situations in which the children of Class 1 find themselves, and will enjoy meeting the same characters across the nine books. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

On the moon
By Milbourne, Anna ; Davies, Benji
Barcode # 040461

Please, Miss !
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040456

A Shoot of Corn
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040450

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), A Shoot of Corn is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Narrative Recounts, a strand which motivates children to explore their personal responses and make links to their own experiences. Each story in this set of nine marks a significant event from someone's childhood. This is a true story about Richard Brown, which happened in 1958. In the village school that Richard used to go to as a boy, there was always a harvest festival. One year, Richard found some grains of corn. In the spring, he planted one in a jar and watched it grow into a beautiful shoot of corn. Narrative recounts also provide excellent models for children's own writing. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

Show-and-Tell
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040457

Snow in the kitchen
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040446

This is the register
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040453

This is the Register is from the genre strand Stories with Familiar Settings, a strand where children can identify with the setting and characters and make links with their own experiences. This is the Register is one of nine books written by Tony Bradman and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Each story features the children of Class 1 and their teacher, Miss Miller.

Tulips for Dad
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040445

The Watch by the sea
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040451

Well Done, Sam!
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040458

Well Done, Sam! is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories with Familiar Settings, a strand where children can identify with the setting and characters and make links with their own experiences. Well Done, Sam! is one of nine books written by Tony Bradman and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Each story features the children of Class 1 and their teacher, Miss Miller.

A Welsh Lamb
By Brown, Richard
Barcode # 040448

What's the time?
By Bradman, Tony
Barcode # 040454

What's the Time? is one of nine books written by Tony Bradman and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Each story features the children of Class 1 and their teacher, Miss Miller. Young readers will easily relate to the kind of situations in which the children of Class 1 find themselves, and will enjoy meeting the same characters across the nine books.

Witch: Worlds Apart
By Egan, Kate
Barcode # 040548

This book is about a new adventure for the five friends as meddling from Candracar leaves them trapped in individual worlds. The powerful beings in Candracar have once again turned their attention to Will, Irma, Taranee, Cornelia and Hay Lin. They are disturbed to see the group fighting and splintering under pressure. Taking it upon herself to punish the girls, Luba sets a trap that ends up going horribly wrong. With each girl trapped in a world of her own, there is no stopping Luba or the powerful being she has created. This book comes with full colour comic inserts at the start and end of the story.

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