General Editor: Sue Palmer
Fiction Editor and Language Consultant: Wendy Body

The Longman Book Project for ages 4-11:

• Inspires children with an unparalleled variety of fiction by significant children's authors and illustrators such as Anne Fine, Beverley Naidoo, Michael Rosen, Jacqueline Wilson and Geraldine McCaughrean.
• Offers at-a-glance NLS teaching support in a literacy grid at the back of every book highlighting text, sentence and word level work for easy access by teachers, teaching assistants and parents.
• Specific materials for progress monitoring and assessment for teachers and children in the Teacher's Books including reading and writing assessment task copymasters, test passages and reading records.
• Provides gradual, age-appropriate progression and supportive clusters of shared, guided and independent reading books based around common themes for Key Stage 1/P1-3.
• Presents a wide range of different titles to stimulate all readers at Key Stage 2/P4-7.
• Covers a huge range of NLS fiction genres including plays and poetry to promote speaking and listening.
• Promotes valuable awareness of community and citizenship through many titles based around issues of community, environment and health.
  

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

This book is at the following key stages: Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 . A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1995 by Pearson Education Limited .

Guy Parker-Rees has illustrated numerous books for children, including the bestselling sensation Giraffes Can't Dance . He lives in Brighton, England, and he invites you to visit him online at guyparkerrees. com. Alecia McKenzie was born and raised in Kingston, Jamaica. After high school, Alecia studied at Troy State University in Alabama, and Columbia University in New York. She later worked as a journalist for the New York Times Regional Newspaper Group, and briefly for CBS, before moving to Belgium, where her first job was as a radio deejay for FM Le Soir. She also worked with The Wall Street Journal / Europe, InterPress Service and other organizations, and taught Communications at the Free University of Brussels (Vesalius College). In 1992, her first collection of short stories, Satellite City, was published and went on to win the regional Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best First Book. She is also the author of When the Rain Stopped in Natland and the forthcoming Stories from Yard. Doctor's Orders is her second book for young readers. Alecia currently lives in Singapore with her family but she returns as often as possible to the Caribbean.