This book is part of a book series called The Longman Book Project .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

This book was published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited .

Jan Needle is a well known children's writer. His novels include The Bully, My Mate Shofiq, Albeson and The Germans and A Game of Soldiers. Other plays by him include The Thief, A Game of Soldiers and The Rebels of Gas Street. Ad le Geras is the celebrated author of many books for all ages, including Troy and Ithaka. She lives in Cambridge, England. Moira Andrew is a former headteacher and College of Education lecturer. She is currently a freelance writer and a 'poet-in-schools'. Moira writes poetry for adults as well as children. She also writes teacher's books, children's stories and early reading books and is one of our Letterland Reading At Home authors. Her publications include titles in the Belair Teacher's range and she has written for Longman, Puffin, Heinemann, Scholastic, Ginn, Nelson and OUP.