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Trixie Tempest’s Diary

Band 16/Sapphire

Ros Asquith author Marcela Calderon illustrator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers

Published:1st Sep '09

Should be back in stock very soon

Trixie Tempest’s Diary cover

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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.

ISBN: 9780007231225

Dimensions: 210mm x 148mm x 4mm

Weight: 130g

56 pages