The Golden Turtle and Other Tales: Band 16/Sapphire

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Three folk tales from around the world retold by the wonderful storyteller Gervase Phinn. In the first, a golden turtle offers a kindly fisherman riches beyond his wildest dreams. In the secod, Amparo’s daughter looks sweet, but when she’s determined to do something nothing gets in her way. In the third, a naughty leprechaun gets a big shock!

  • Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
  • A ‘wanted’ poster on pages 54 and 55 for the leprechaun in the last story helps children to recap all the naughty things he did.
  • Text type: Three stories from other cultures.
  • This book is paired with The Ultimate World Quiz, a non-fiction information book full of facts about our planet.
  • Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Citizenship: Choices, Living in a diverse world.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

The Golden Turtle and Other Tales: Band 16/Sapphire Reviews | Toppsta

9780007231089

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This is Book 418 in the Collins Big Cat Series. See all Collins Big Cat books here.

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About Gervase Phinn

Gervase Phinn leads a very full and active life: a bestselling author and poet, teacher, freelance lecturer, educational consultant, school inspector, visiting professor of education and, last but by no means least, father of four. The majority of his time is spent in schools with teachers and children. He is best known for his autobiographical accounts of h

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About Tomislav Zlatic

Jane Clarke has been an archaeologist, a teacher and a library assistant, but is now a full time children's writer. She has more than 20 picture books and early reading stories in print, and lots of poems in children's anthologies. Jane loves to visit primary schools to share her books and to talk about being an author, and to run poetry and/or creative writ

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About Sholto Walker

Martin Howard is an experienced editor who has also written  laugh-out-loud books for both children and adults. For children he has  written How to Cook Children: A Grisly Recipe Book (Pavilion, 2008), the Witches at War trilogy (Pavilion) and Germs: An Epic Tale on a Tiny Scale  (Pavilion, 2010) for younger children as well as several titles for  fiction pa

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