No. of pages 32
Published: 2016
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This book features in the following series: Oxford Reading Tree-Treetops Greatest Stories, Treetops .
This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is at Oxford Level 10. This Oxford level 10 is equivalent to book band white. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Oxford University Press .
Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he has won numerous awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005. His world-famous War Horse met with international acclaim and has been made into a stage play and a film. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Childrens Literature at Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other projects, including for the V&A Museum, British Library and British Council. In 2013 she won the International Brothers Grimm Award for an outstanding body of research into children's literature. She is a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Childrens Books in Newcastle and was a founder-member of the UK Childrens Laureate. Ita Daly is an acclaimed Irish novelist. Her short stories have appeared in Irish, British and US magazines and anthologies, and she has won an Irish Times short story competition as well as two Hennessy Literary Awards. Bee Willey is a well-known artist, who has illustrated many best-selling treasuries and books of fairy tales. Pippa Goodhart is an award winning bestselling author, known for the Winne the Witch series and her Michael Morpurgo has brought together poems by writers as diverse as Spike Milligan and Stevie Smith, John Lennon and Jo Shapcott.
This book contains the following story:
Sleeping Beauty
After a curse is placed upon her as a baby, a princess pricks her finger on a spinning wheel and falls into a deep sleep on her sixteenth birthday. One hundred years later, a handsome prince rides past the forgotten palace. He must undo the curse and finally awaken the princess.
This book is in the following series:
Treetops
All Stars Fiction are chapter books aimed at gifted and talented infants. Designed to be age appropriate, they include stories by top authors such as Geraldine McCaughrean, Margaret McAllister and Alan MacDonald, and have been created to motivate and challenge able infants. The books fall into book band colours gold, white, lime.
Oxford Reading Tree-Treetops Greatest Stories
Often individual series are part of a bigger set. The sub-series this book is in forms part of the following wider set:
