Inspired by three traditional African tales, follow the crafty spider Anansi, and find out how his greed and cunning don’t always get him what he wants. • Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate. • Text type: A retelling of a traditional tale • Curriculum links: Citizenship

Greedy Anansi and his Three Cunning Plans: Band 13/Topaz (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

Birch, Beverley

Animals

Collins Educational

Turtle wanted to go to the party in the clouds, but how would she get there without wings? She had an idea, but, unfortunately, things didn’t go quite according to plan.• Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.• Text type—a traditional tale.• A story map on pages 22-23 allows children to look back at Turtle’s changing emotions along her journey.

Collins Big Cat ― Turtle's Party In The Clouds: Orange/Band 06

Collins

Two beautifully told traditional tales by Beverley Birch. The Water Thief’ is about the mischievous antics of Hyena and how crafty Tortoise plays him at his own game. Lumbwi and the Gazelle’ is about a moving friendship, but when Lumbwi embarks on a new life he seems to forget about his old friend, to dreadful consequences. Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts. Text type: Traditional tales from another culture Curriculum links: English: fairy stories, myths and legends

Two Animal Tales from Africa: Band 15/Emerald (Collins Big Cat Tales)

Fabbri, Daniele

Covers a little creased, clean bright pages

Suzi Sam George And Alice

Literature & Fiction

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Shakespeare's Tales

Presents four prose adaptations of Shakepseare's plays with watercolor illustrations, introducing the classic works through easy-to-follow storylines.

Shakespeare., William

Classics

Hodder&Stoughton

These wonderful plays are retold by Beverley Birch and complemented by stunning artwork from James Mayhew. This book makes a lovely present as well as being a wonderful collectable introduction to Shakespeare's work. The plays included are: "Romeo and Juliet", "Macbeth", "Twelfth Night", "A Midsummer Night's Dream", and "Julius Caesar".

Shakespeare's Stories

Hodder Children`S Books

Mum and Dad have their own ideas for a nice, peaceful Sunday, but Suzi, Sam, and the cats George and Alice have far too much to do. They have mountains to climb, tigers to trail, and circus tricks to perform. From seven o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon—it's chaos.

Suzi SAM George and Alice

Gardner, Sally

Growing Up & Facts of Life

Discusses finding and preparing food, eating it, and hunger in the world today.

Food from Many Lands (Let's Look Up)

Silver Burdett Pr

<p>A must for every family bookshelf. Highly regarded as one of the most popular poetry anthologies ever published, this collection includes poems by Blake, Emerson, Dickinson, Longfellow, Stevenson, et al.</p>

Book of 1,000 Poems

Poetry

Gramercy

<p>Five of Shakespeare's most beloved histories--Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III, Henry IV, and Henry V--are included in this one handy volume.</p>

Shakespeare's Stories: The Histories

Random House Value Publishing

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