Trixie Tempest's Diary: Band 16/Sapphire (Collins Big Cat)

by Ros Asquith, Marcela Calderon (Illustrator)

Overview

Trixie's hilarious diary, written by acclaimed children's writer, Ros Asquith, tells of her plans to be a world famous trumpet player, horse rider and first child president of the world. She is also determined to teach animals to read! But when her beloved puppy is sick, everything changes.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Text type: A humorous recount.

A hilarious diary for her pet dog on pages 54-55 allow children to further explore the diary format, while reviewing the book from another perspective.

Curriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us. Developing our school grounds.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008429096
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	07/01/2020
Series:	Collins Big Cat
Sold by:	HarperCollins Publishers
Format:	eBook
Pages:	56
Sales rank:	888,021
File size:	17 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.
Age Range:	9 - 10 Years

About the Author

Ros Asquith is well-known to Guardian readers for her strip cartoon Doris, which ran for over ten years. She is also the succesful author of children’s books, notably the Letty Chubb Teenage Worrier series for teenagers published by Piccadilly and Puffin. She lives in North London with her husband – a jazz critic – and two teenage sons.