Four original stories of magical creatures from faraway lands told for children just beginning to read. Featuring unicorns, flying horses and a creature that's half-lion, half-eagle, these stories are guaranteed to enthral children. Usborne Young Reading has been developed with reading experts from Roehampton University.

 

This book features in the following series: Usborne Young Reading, Young Reading .

This book is at national curriculum levels 2A, 2B . The National Curriculum sets out the programmes of study and attainment targets for all subjects at all 4 key stages. Each National Curriculum level is divided into sub-levels, where Level C means that a child is working at the lower end of the level, Level B they is working comfortably at that level, and Level A means that they is working at the top end of the level. The Government has suggested a child should achieve the following levels by the end of each school year: (i) Level 1b by end Year 1, Level 2a-c by end Year 2, Level 2a-3b by end Year 3, Level 3 by the end Year 4, Level 3b-4c by the end Year 5, Level 4 by the end Year 6. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme is levelled.

There are 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .

Gill Harvey studied French and Philosophy at Oxford, and has been puzzling over life ever since. She became a writer/editor at Usborne Publishing then decided to go freelance and writing has become a way of life. Her love of horses has resulted in eight of the Heartland titles for Scholastic Inc under the name of Lauren Brooke; she has also written for the Young Animal Ark series as Lucy Daniels. A year spent commuting to Egypt led to the writing of Orphan of the Sun, Gill's first book for Bloomsbury, and subsequently to the Egyptian Chronicles series. This is Dawn Casey's first book for Bloomsbury. Her previously published titles include The Great Race, published by Barefoot. She has also worked as a children's book reviewer for Achuka and Armadillo, and as the organiser of the Brighton Children's Book Festival. Dawn lives in East Sussex. Nick Price lives in deepest Devon, always keeping one eye open for dolphins, porpoises and even the occasional basking shark. When he's not doing that, he sits in his studio and uses the other eye to illustrate books for children, including Pongwiffy, Clover Twig, The Snagglegrollop and Tumtum and Nutmeg. Carol Watson is the author of A Day in the Life of series. Carol is an ex-teacher and is an experienced author for this Key Stage 1 level.