The Elves and the Shoemaker is based on the traditional tale by the Brothers Grimm of elves who come to the rescue of a poor shoemaker and his wife, who in turn find a way of repaying the elves for their help ... This popular story, beautifully written and illustrated by Mike Brownlow, will capture your child's imagination! It has been sensitively created to enable your child to engage with the story and discuss the pictures with confidence, whilst capturing the magic of the original tale. There are useful tips for parents and an engaging story map inside the book to help you and your child retell the story together. The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series includes 40 of the best known stories from all over the world, which have been passed down for generations. They are a perfect introduction to different cultures, traditions and morals. All the stories are carefully levelled to Oxford Reading Tree levels and matched to the phonic progression in Letters and Sounds enabling your children to read the stories independently. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with childrens reading development is also available at www.oxfordowl.co.uk.
This book is part of a book series called Oxford Reading Tree-Traditional Tales .
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. This reading scheme has multiple levels.
There are 12 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Oxford University Press .
Nikki Gamble is a lecturer, writer and directs the Write Away education consultancy. She is an evaluator for the Literature Matters project which aims to promote children's literature in initial teacher training courses. Mike Brownlow is the creator of the extremely successful book series 'Little Robots' from which Lego created toy and animation characters. Mike is the author illustrator of several books for young readers including 'I've Got Nits!' for Ragged Bears. He lives in the West Country with his family. Teresa Heapy writes stories and non-fiction books for children. She also writes and material to support teachers and parents, and gets lots of ideas from her three young children!
This book contains the following story:
The Elves and the Shoemaker
In Grimms' The Elves and the Shoemaker a poor shoemaker has leather to make only one pair of shoes but many bills to pay. He cuts out the leather and leaves the shoes for sewing. The next morning the pieces have been transformed into an exquisite pair of shoes, so fine they sell for a fortune. This magic is repeated until he is quite wealthy. But his wife wishes to know where the beautiful shoes come from, and so the two stay up and spy. They discover that every night a band of elves visit and stitch the leather into gorgeous shoes. However the elves do not like to be seen, and having been discovered by the shoemaker never again return. But the shoemaker now has such a reputation that this is of no concern, as customers are plentiful and he is able to make a pretty good living on his own.
