In a terrific twist on the original well known tale of The Gingerbread Man, follow the amazing Ninjabread Man as he dips and dives out of danger!

Hopscotch Twisty Tales combine carefully controlled text levels and word counts with highly entertaining and original stories, perfect for children starting to read independently. This story is perfcet for 5-7 year olds or those reading book band 8.

This book features in the following series: Hopscotch Twisty Tales, Hopscotch-Twisty Tales .

This book is at Book Band Purple. Purple books will start to have more longer sentences and a wider range of challenging vocabulary. A lot of Purple books will start to have shorter chapters to encourage a child's reading ability. Children will have encountered more of the high frequency words by this level, and teachers will be promoting reading for pleasure. Pupil Targets: (i) read silently in their head for longer periods of time, (ii) read longer books with short chapters, (iii) read fiction, non-fiction and poetry, (iv) sound out most unfamiliar words as they read, (v) use a dictionary to find the meaning of a word, (vi) explain why they think a book is good or not.

This book has been graded for interest at 5-7 years.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by Hachette Children's Group .

Sue Ferraby works as a teacher and Literacy Co-ordinator in a small school in the Yorkshire Dales. She enjoys drawing and writing stories with children and walking by the sea. Fabiano Fiorin was born and lives in Venice, Italy. Since 1980 he has been illustrating for comics and illustrated children's books in Italy, Germany, New Zealand and the UK. Katrina Charman lives near Wokingham with her husband and three daughters. She was a winner of the SCBWI's Undiscovered Voices Competition in 2014 and is also the author of THE NINJABREAD MAN. Since graduating from Loughborough University with a degree in Illustration, Lucy has become one of the UK's leading commercial illustrators. Lucy draws inspiration from popular culture, fashion and all things vintage to create her fabulous artworks.