Most Popular Books by Rosalind Kerven

The story is set in a larger-than-life Viking world, where Bjarni the pigboy and Astrid, the landowner''s daughter have a budding romance and no future until a massive and mysterious figure looms out of the mist. He says he is Astrid''s uncle and suggests that Bjarni should try making his fortune as a pirate. But it isn''t giving too much away to reveal that this is Grim Gruesome himself and he soon has both children firmly under his spell. He is an unredeemable monster, who just hates children, for no apparent reason, but hasn''t allowed for how resisitant these two are.

Built for Guided Reading at Key Stage 2

Bold, colourful readers with kid-friendly characters and subjects they''d choose for themselves.

Built for Guided Reading at Key Stage 2

A quest for treasure inside a haunted troll-mound, a boy condemned as an outlaw and banished to the wilderness and a cruel trick that lands two young girls in mortal danger, Grim Gruesome''s cunning knows no bounds! There are lots of surprises and emotional challenges in this adventure.

Introduces some of the beliefs and customs of Muslims, particularly those connected with the Great Festival of Id al-Fitr, or Bairam.

Part of the Rigby Navigator series that builds on the foundations laid by Rigby Star Guided for successful guided reading lessons at KS2.

The Oxford Literacy Web is an exciting new literacy programme designed toguide schools successfully through the primary years. Fitting the requirementsof the National Literacy Strategy, National Curriculum in England and Wales,English Language 5-14 in Scotland, and Common Curriculum in Northern Ireland,the Oxford Literacy Web guides pupils through the core skills associated withlearning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within thegenres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry.The "Fiction" strand: there can be no better way to learn to read than throughthe Duck Green School and Variety story strands. Exciting stories, hilariousevents, and dynamic illustrations combine to ensure diversity and enjoyment. Inthe Duck Green School stories, early school experiences are brought to lifethrough a cast of lovable characters. Children can enjoy their own ''soap opera''while learning specific vocabulary in context.Stage 4 of Duck Green Stories reinforces earlier sight vocabulary andintroduces 20 new key words. We also meet the children in Miss Ross''s class,including Poppy''s brothers, Mike and Spike, and Leela Lalloo, whose grandparentsown The Treasure Chest. The books are available in both standard and ''big book''format.

Nobody goes inside the enchanted forest, until one day Janna, a wild sort of girl, squeezes under a fence and enters the eerie place. Beside a rose-clad, ruined well she meets Tam Lin, whose grey eyes smoulder with strange, secret mists - and at once the two fall in love.

Built for Guided Reading at Key Stage 2.

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today''s children to read. This title is suitable for ages 7-8 (Brown level).

Novel for children set in Lapland.

Ingrid and Kjartan live in the troubled Viking Age: danger is everywhere and no stranger can be trusted. So what should they do when a foreigner comes knocking at their door, begging for help? The law-makers are hunting him down as an evil criminal, but he insists he is innocent. As they struggle to discover the truth, the two children are swept up into a terrifying adventure and a desperate race against time. Sorcery and Gold is one of eleven books that make up Extended Reading Level B, for children in Year 6/Primary 7. This phase of Cambridge Reading has an increased provision of extended narratives and aims to develop children''s knowledge about language, its vocabulary, forms, structures and styles. This book''s Viking setting means it can be read in conjunction with the KS2 History syllabus.

The Oxford Literacy Web is an exciting new literacy programme designed to guide schools successfully through the primary years. Fitting the requirements of the National Literacy Strategy, National Curriculum in England and Wales, English Language 5-14 in Scotland, and Common Curriculum in Northern Ireland, the Oxford Literacy Web guides pupils through the core skills associated with learning to read and write with a diverse range of literary styles within the genres of fiction, non-fiction, rhymes, language, and poetry. The "Fiction" strand: there can be no better way to learn to read than through the Duck Green School and Variety story strands. Exciting stories, hilarious events, and dynamic illustrations combine to ensure diversity and enjoyment. Variety stories extend children''s experience of different styles of fiction. They reinforce vocabulary but include a more challening element to push upward toward the next level.

Nobody goes inside the old, beautiful forest, until one day Janna squeezes under a fence and enters an eerie place. . .

In the Court of the Jade Emperor Pack of 6 contains 6 copies of the Extended Reading B book In the Court of the Jade Emperor.

The Storyworlds scheme offers graded texts to ensure steady progression of reading skills in a highly supportive structure. The books may be used for guided, independent or take-home work. Each text is correlated to Book Bands.

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), The Weather Drum is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories from a Range of Cultures. This set of nine stories contain a variety of language and illustration styles, reflecting the myths, folk tales and fairy stories of the many different cultures from which they were taken. The Weather Drum by Rosalind Kerven is a Siberian folk tale about great chief Universe and his wife Rain Woman who conjure terrible storms with their drum. The illustrations by Vladyana Krykorka depict the traditional lifestyle of the Koryak people, from whom the story comes. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

Thirteen tales from a variety of ethnic sources featuring animals important to those cultures.

"Grim Gruesome is on his way to the Viking town of Jorvik! Dalla and her older brothers Aki and Frodi are terrified. Should they trust the fierce ''berserk'' warrior who offers them protection? Or seek help from the Queen of Jorvik -- even though everyone says she''s a witch?" --Publisher.

Discover the ancient secrets of magic and enchantment. Meet genies, fairies and dragon-kings. Learn about spells and shape-changing, wishes, charms, and magic travel. Read how jewels fall from the sky, a man is bewitched and a boy turns into a whale.