Fearless Flynn and Other Tales: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)

by Geraldine McCaughrean, Gillian Shields, Martin Waddell

On Sale: 09/01/2008

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Fearless Flynn and Other Tales: Band 17/Diamond (Collins Big Cat)

by Geraldine McCaughrean, Gillian Shields, Martin Waddell

illustrated by T. S. Spookytooth, C.B. Canga, Fernando Juarez

On Sale: 09/01/2008

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Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level

Three spooky tales from three peerless storytellers, perfect for telling around the fire on a dark, windy night. Read of Flynn, who battled with three skeletons; of Tom, who saw something so weird in the moonlight that it changed his life for ever; and of the terrifying thirteen crows who brought death wherever they went…

Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
A selection of newspaper articles about Fearless Flynn give children the opportunity to explore other ways of presenting information and other points of view.
Text type: Three fantasy stories.
Curriculum links: Music: Stars, hide your fires – Performing together.
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Product Details

ISBN: 9780007231058
ISBN 10: 0007231059
Imprint: Collins
On Sale: 09/01/2008
Pages: 56
List Price:9.99 CAD
Ages: 10 to 11
BISAC1 : EDUCATION / Elementary
BISAC2 : JUVENILE FICTION / Horror
BISAC3 : JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education
BISAC4 : JUVENILE FICTION / Thrillers & Suspense
BISAC5 : EDUCATION / Teaching Methods & Materials / Reading & Phonics

Geraldine McCaughrean

Biography

Geraldine McCaughrean is the Printz Award-winning author of The White Darkness. She has been honored with England's most prestigious children's book award, the Carnegie Medal, and is the only three-time winner ever of the Whitbread Children's Book Award. She also wrote Peter Pan in Scarlet, the first official sequel to the treasured masterpiece Peter Pan, and the critically acclaimed The Death-Defying Pepper Roux. Geraldine lives in Berkshire, England, with her husband and actress daughter.

Gillian Shields

Biography

Gillian Shields is the author of Immortal, Betrayal, and Eternal, the first books about the sisterhood of the Mystic Way, as well as many other books for young readers. She spent her childhood roaming over the Yorkshire moors and dreaming of the Brontë sisters. After studying in Cambridge, London, and Paris, she became a teacher. She has taught in a girls' boarding school and also in a drama school where it was rumored that the ghost of a young girl could be heard crying in the night. Gillian was inspired to write this series in celebration of the power of first love, the strength of female friendship, and the haunting mystery of the past.