In this cluster, Sam comes up with some inventive ways to prevent flooding in Sam's Flood Plan. The children decide to build a raft and go for a ride, but when the raft crashes Max, Cat and Tiger have to think of a clever way to rescue Ant in the two part adventure A Wild Ride and Don't Look Down! We also sail across the Atlantic with Michael Perham on his record breaking adventure and find ou…
Charlie's homework was to explore the people and places in his community. "What is my community?" he asked his mother. So they took a walk to find out. With the bounce and humor that have characterized all her popular books over the years, Judith Caseley once again proves that when it comes to the primary school world, there is very little that she doesn't know. Charlie and his mother take a wa…
A colorful, playful counting book that introduces young children to Chinese characters and action words. One little girl catches a butterfly. Two small swimmers stomp in puddles. Three young musicians bang their drums. The children in this action-packed counting book jump, dance, and run through the numbers from one to ten. 1, 2, 3, Go! is an exciting introduction to the simplest and most lo…
An information book about the celebrated historical and fictional characters Cleopatra, Boudica, King Arthur, Robin Hood, the Pied Piper, Pocahontas, Blackbeard, Dracula and Tarzan. The book investigates which of them really existed, and which are based on legend. • Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary. • Text type - An info…
A is for ark. But did you know that if you turn an A upside down and round the point out a little, it becomes an ark? B is for balloon. But did you know that if you blow it up really big, the hole in the middle floats away like a balloon? In this wonderfully creative alphabet book, letters are pulled, twisted, reversed, and curled until they become part of what they represent. F becomes a fis…
What is a verb? It's easier to show than explain! In this fun and animated introduction to grammer, rhyming verse is used to creatively clarify the concept of verbs. Chock-full of colorful, lively examples, the playful rhymes and illustrations of comical cartoon cats combine to hightlight key words in the sentences. Verbs like toss and tumble, jump and jam, jog and juggle, jig and leap are prin…
FAST or SLOW, HOT or COLD, or RIGHT or WRONG! Discover the life of an antonym. In this imaginative picture book, young learners are introduced to these words that mean the opposite of another word. Along with bright illustrations and colorful fonts, bestselling author Michael Dahl (If You Were a Verb and If You Were a Noun) delivers an imaginative read-aloud for your littlest grammarians.