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 .

Catherine Storr was born in London in 1913. She practised medicine for fifteen years, but never forgot her ambition to be a writer. She wrote her first children's books for her three daughters and many became classics. Marianne Dreams was also made into a film, The Paper House, in 1990. She died in 2001. Michael Rosen is a poet, writer and broadcaster, and held the post of Children's laureate from 2007-2009. Michaela Morgan is a well-regarded author whose recent Walter Tull's Scrapbook earned her glowing reviews and a boost in profile, as well as a shortlisting for the Blue Peter Book Award for Best Book with Facts. Martin Davies, Helen Bird, David Orme, Maureen Lewis and Gareth Price 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.