This level three Hop, Step, Jump series story is a comic tale of a boy who befriends a trumpet player. The series moves from stories told in simple sentences with basic grammatical structures, through freer use of language to the level of reading reached at the end of primary school.

 

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 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2001 by Macmillan Education .

Petronella Breinburg's aunt was a Nenne Dofi, a Great Storyteller, in Surinam. It inspired her to become a storyteller herself, and ever since she was young, Petronella has been collecting stories from all round the Caribbean. These are some of her favourites. She is the author of a number of children's story books.