Best Selling Books by James Riordan

Novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading! TreeTops Fiction contains a wide range of quality stories enabling children to explore and develop their own reading tastes and interests. It contains stories from a variety of genres including humour, sci-fi, adventure, mystery and historical fiction. These exciting stories are ideal for introducing children to a wide selection of authors and illustrators. There is huge variety to ensure every reader finds books they will enjoy and can read. Books contain inside cover notes to support children in their reading. Help with children''s reading development also available at a href=http://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"www.oxfordowl.co.uk/a. The books are finely levelled, making it easy to match every child to the right book. This pack contains 36 books, six of each of: Petey, Danny''s Secret Fox, Grace the Pirate, The Night of the Ticklers, Okay, Spanner, You Win!, Climbing in the Dark."

Meet Grace Barry in Grace the Pirate. Grace is a wild young girl; she is captured by pirates and marooned on a desert island. But nothing can stop Grace for long... TreeTops Fiction contains engaging novels from top authors and illustrators with the variety children need to develop a love of reading!

A collection of Football Stories, mixing humour, excitement and tension, about professional and amateur teams, girls playing and succeeding, English and German soldiers at Christmas, Gestapo v. Kiev Dynamo - and football poems as well. James Riordan is a distinguished children''s book writer, as well as being Professor of Russian at the University of Surrey.

Sinbad''s adventures are the most fantastic of the stories in The Thousand and One Nights. During his twenty years as a merchant adventurer, Sinbad encounters a Rookh''s egg, a valley of diamonds, streams of amber, a terrifying sea-monster, an ogre''s feast, the Cave of the Dead, the Old Man of the Sea and much, much more... For this vibrant retelling, James Riordan has drawn particularly on Sir Richard Burton''s remarkable translation. Shelley Fowles tackles the illustrations with gusto and her comic touch gives these classic stories a highly contemporary feel.

Petrushka is part of Russian folklore. We know it best from Stravinsky''s ballet. Petrushka is tired of being a clown. He wants to save pretty ballerina from Strongman and take her in his arms far, far away. His mind is made up and, encouraged by Skeleton, the next day he challenges his rival to a duel. But he''s no match for Strongman and ends up in a lifeless, crumpled heap. ''That old ragdoll needs chucking out,'' says the showman. But Petrushka has other ideas...;

This book is part of TreeTops Fiction, a structured reading programme providing juniors with stories they will love to read. Offering chapter books with full-colour illustrations, written by well-known authors, these stories are full of humour and have real boy appeal. They are tightly levelled allowing children to read books appropriate to their ability. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of up-to-date and invaluable teaching notes.

This is the life story of Nelson Mandela, and how he struggled against oppression to become a symbol of the human rights movement. It tells what life was like for him and how he helped to change people''s lives. There are watercolour paintings to illustrate the stories.

Given a fresh look with covers, a different TreeTops logo, this title includes parental notes on inside back cover and also teaching materials. The Guided Reading comprehension cards accompanying the Stage 14 TreeTops Fiction Readers For Juniors provide group reading support for teachers.

Collection of fairy tales and folklore for children.

A folk tale from Estonia which catalogues a hilarious cycle of domestic mishaps when a husband and wife swap jobs. This story - broadcast in the BBC Radio 5 series Listening and Reading - is also available on cassette with two other stories.

Provides both historical and current perspectives on life in the eleven republics which emerged after the collapse of the Soviet Union and formed a voluntary association of their countries.

Pour Tom et Iris, la guerre n''est plus un jeu : elle leur a déjà pris leur père. Entre deux bombardements, ils n''ont pas peur d''explorer les carcasses d''avions allemands, à la recherche de trésors de guerre, pris à l''ennemi. Mais un jour, ils se retrouvent face à un jeune soldat allemand blessé, un pilote, il sera leur prisonnier...

"Frank": Frank is eleven and lives in war-torn London in a house which has two bedrooms but 10 family members. The ''gezzunder'' of the attacking German bombs can be heard, but Frank isn''t scared, he loves it! The war is exciting to him: the night-time dogfights, hunting bombed houses for trophies and sitting in the air raid shelter. His uncles and aunts talk about the Germans and the Jews, but they don''t seem real to him. Then Frank is evacuated to the boring country were he lives with a strange Jewish girl called Hannah from Germany ... "Hannah": Hannah is a young Jewish girl living in Berlin. Her family are growing more horrified at what is happening to Jews in their own country. Her parents'' fear frightens her more than news of what''s happening on the street. For her the threat of war is real and terrible. But she is one of the lucky ones who, after the horrors of Krystal Nacht, is transported out of Germany and goes to live in England. Thrown together with Frank, she clings to playing her beloved violin and wonders what is happening at home. Can she ever become friends with this strange English boy?

A collection of traditional tales from around the world each of whose main character is female.