Oxford Reading Tree TreeTops Greatest Stories: Oxford Level 17: The Enchanted Horse

by Michael Morpurgo (Series Editor), Michael Morpurgo (Series Editor), Michael Morpurgo (Series Editor), Rachel Cloyne (Illustrator), Kimberley Reynolds (Series Editor), Jamila Gavin (Author)

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Paperback
2016
$11.57

Scheherazade must use her wits to save her from death. Every night for one thousand and one nights, she weaves captivating tales of genies, lamps, flying horses and sorcery, transporting the reader into magical and lavishly illustrated worlds. Will her honeyed words be enough to sweeten the mood of the angry king? TreeTops Greatest Stories offers children some of the worlds best-loved tales in a collection of timeless classics. Top children's authors and talented illustrators work together to bring to life our literary heritage for a new generation, engaging and delighting children. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book. Each book contains inside cover notes to help children explore the content, supporting their reading development. Teaching notes on Oxford Owl offer cross-curricular links and activities to support guided reading, writing, speaking and listening.

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Scheherazade must use her wits to save her from death. Every night for one thousand and one nights, she weaves captivating tales of genies, lamps, flying horses and sorcery, transporting the reader into magical and lavishly illustrated worlds. Will her honeyed words be enough to sweeten the mood of the angry king? TreeTops Greatest Stories offers children some of the worlds best-loved tales in a collection of timeless classics. Top children's authors and talented illustrators work together to bring to life our literary heritage for a new generation, engaging and delighting children. The books are carefully levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book. Each book contains inside cover notes to help children explore the content, supporting their reading development. Teaching notes on Oxford Owl offer cross-curricular links and activities to support guided reading, writing, speaking and listening.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 96
Edition: UK ed.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 01 May 2016
ISBN 10: 0198306091
ISBN 13: 9780198306092
Book Overview: A timeless collection to capture our literary heritage

Author Bio

Winner of the Whitbread Children's Book Award, 2000; finalist for NSK Neustadt Prize for Children's Literature, 2014; runner up for the Guardian Children's Fiction Award, 1992; shortlisted for the Nestle Smarties Book Award and the Carnegie Medal. Michael Morpurgo is one of the UK's most well-known and best-loved authors. A prolific writer, he has won numerous awards and was the Children's Laureate from 2003 to 2005. His world-famous War Horse met with international acclaim and has been made into a stage play and a film. Kimberley Reynolds is Professor of Childrens Literature at Newcastle University. She has advised on and contributed to many children's literature broadcasts, programmes, films and other projects, including for the V&A Museum, British Library and British Council. In 2013 she won the International Brothers Grimm Award for an outstanding body of research into children's literature. She is a trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Childrens Books in Newcastle and was