Ideal for whole-class teaching, to develop reading aloud with expression, this book is written to fit the Sound Start levelled structure. It provides material that rhymes with predictable patterns; a perfect mix of modern and traditional verse that uses humour, nonsense poems and riddles to stimulate young readers; and high, quality, original and stimulating illustrations to support the text.
This book features in the following series: Blue Poetry, Soundstart Series, Stanley Thornes Primary Literacy .
This book is aimed at children in primary school.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by Oxford University Press .
John Jackman is one of Collins' leading authors for Primary literacy. A former primary schoolteacher, he is an established, successful author of English language resources. Among his other publications for Collins are Collins Focus on Writing and Collins Focus on Grammar and Punctuation (consultant).
This book contains the following story:
The Lion and the Unicorn
As Lenny's father goes off to fight in the second world war he Gives his son a badge with a lion and a unicorn on it. Lenny keeps it with him when bombs are dropped on his street and when he has to be evacuated to a big house in the country. He misses his parents a great deal and the other children are spiteful in teasing him. But he finds a secret walled garden to escape to with a stone unicorn. Here he meets the wounded soldier Mick and learns again how hard it is to be brave. It is the unicorn who finally rescues him from his sadness and loneliness and proves itself to be his guardian angel by bringing his mother to him.
