A new chance to follow the lives of Roberta, Phyllis and Peter as they relocate to the country and make friends with station guard Perks, in a lovely retelling of the old favourite written for children by E. Nesbit in the early Twentieth Century.
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Text type: Fiction from our literary heritage
Curriculum links: English: fiction from the English literary heritage
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
| ISBN: | 9780008147273 |
| Publication date: | 5th January 2016 |
| Author: | Harriet Castor |
| Illustrator: | Rosalind Lyons |
| Publisher: | Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 55 pages |
| Series: | Collins Big Cat Classics |
| Genres: |
Children’s / Teenage category fiction Reading Scheme Classic Literature |