Part of the Rapid Reading series, created to help children catch up. Rapid Reading is the UK's most comprehensive reading intervention programme. The books and unique speech-recognition software are guaranteed to motivate children with SEN and struggling readers at Key Stage 2 (1st/2nd Level)

This book is part of a book series called Rapid Series 2 .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 2. KS2 covers school years 4, 5 and 6, and ages 8-11 years. 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. This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Pearson Education Limited .

Alison Hawes is a freelance writer specializing in fiction and non-fiction for children. She has been a school teacher, a classroom assistant, and playgroup helper but now writes full time. She has written over 80 books for schools, stories and articles for BBC Playdays. Simon Cheshire has written lots of fiction books for children of all ages across many genres, including titles in the Black Cats series for A&C Black and the Saxby Smart detective series for Picadilly. FRANCES CASTLE is an illustrator based in North London. Her clients include The Guardian, Random House, The Independent, Egmont, CBBC, BBC learning many more. Sean Taylor has written more than 40 books for young readers. These include the Purple Class series of comic adventures set in an urban primary school, a collection of folktales from the Amazon called The Great Snake, a novel for teenagers called A Waste of Good Paper, and picture books such as The World Champion of Staying Awake, illustrated by Jimmy Liao, Boing!, illustrated by Bruce Ingman, and Hoot Owl, illustrated by Jean Jullien. He lives in Bristol with his wife and two sons. Visit Sean's website at www. seantaylorstories. com. Chris Garbutt is an illustrator who works in animation - he lives in LA at the moment as a storyboard artist for Dreamworks. Previously, he's worked for the Cartoon Network and Disney TV on such programmes as Fairly Odd Parents, Stressed Eric and Mr Bean. It's a Groovy World, Alfredo will be his first picture book title.