Flying Foxes aim to introduce children aged 5+ to topics covered in the KS1 curriculum through lively, imaginative stories. The titles tie in with topics that the children actually study. - Fascinating stories - a springboard for learning - Storylines allow teachers to move seamlessly between fiction and non fiction - Top authors and illustrators - Contemporary illustrations - Added value activities

 

This book is part of a book series called Flying Foxes .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 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.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2002 by Pearson Education Limited .

Andrew Melrose is a Principal Lecturer at King Alfred's University College Winchester and runs Writing for Children, a creative writing Masters Degree concentrating solely on children's literature. He has over forty book and film credits, including The Storykeepers series for ITV, two feature films and recently wrote Write for Children (Routledge, 2001). He was born in Scotland and lives in Brighton. Katja Bandlow was born in Bremen, Germany, and completed her Diploma in Children's Book Illustration at Hamburg University. She has studied illustration in London and Italy and is published in France and Germany. She lives in Hamburg, where she works part-time as a physiotherapist and children's book illustrator. This is her first book for Random House.