These are the first titles in the "OLW" variety fiction strand for Key Stage 2. "The OLW" is the new scheme designed to work with the NLS (National Literacy Strategy). "Year 4" includes titles: "Chocolate Boxes" by Pat Thomson is about child labour in Victorian Britain; "Dinosaur Garden" by Susan Gates is a fantasy about dinosaurs in the modern age; "Alien Bek" by Paul Stewart is a story about a child be-friending an alien; "The Battle of Waterloo Road" by Tessa Krailing is a fantasy about football, and "Napoleon Pirates, Gold, and Custard" by Pat Thomson is an historical story; and "Pioneers at Piano Ridge" by Geraldine McCaughrean is about racism in the Wild West, told from two points of view.
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As well as being an author and anthologist, Pat Thomson works with teachers as a lecturer and librarian - work which involves a constant search for short stories which have both quality and child-appeal. She is the compiler of many previous, successful age-ranged and subject-ranged anthologies for the Doubleday/Corgi list. She is also an Honorary Vice-Presid
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