Looking After Gran - Read at home - Level 4

Author: Roderick Hunt

Illustrator: Alex Brychta

Year: 2005

Publisher: Oxford University Press, UK

Age: 4 and above

No. of Pages: 30

ISBN: 978 0 19838 417 5

Website: Read at Home series

The lovable Read at Home series features Floppy, an intelligent and industrious canine.

This story was supposed to be about Gran looking after Floppy while his family is away on a vacation but the tables are turned rather quickly!

The book offers an interesting challenge too – a game to spot the 10 even numbers hidden in the pictures. 

The illustrations are friendly and filled with colorful characters.

Other titles in the Read at Home series include:

• Funny Fish
• Silly Races
• Dad’s Birthday
• Poor Old Rabbit
• I Can Trick a Tiger
• Floppy and the Bone
• The Old Tree Stump, Review here
• The Real Floppy
• The Spaceship
• Hungry Floppy
• Husky Adventure

Excerpt

Gran was away for a long time. The tide started to come in. A wave splashed the front wheel.

Then a wave splashed the back wheel.

“Gran has parked too close to the sea!” thought Floppy.

“I must find Gran,” thought Floppy.

He ran into town as fast as he could.

Cowboy Roy - Puffin Young Readers - Level 2

By Cathy East Dubowski and Mark Dubowski

Year: 2000

Publisher: Penguin Group, USA

Age: 4 and above

No. of Pages: 32

ISBN: 978-0-44841-568-0

A child’s best friend is his imagination and Roy has plenty of it!

Meet Roy, an aspiring cowboy, Meg, his sister and her doll Dolly. Roy desperately wants to learn how to ride his steed, Silver (he thinks it’s his horse but we know it’s just a bicycle ) like the others. 

One day, when Meg is in trouble, Roy and his steed rise up to the occasion and surprise everyone else.

This book belongs to the Puffin Young Readers series. 

Excerpt

So my dad puts on some training wheels.

Meg says, “Try again, Roy. You can do it!”

I try again. I can ride with the training wheels. But do I feel like a cowboy?

No!

I feel like a cowbaby!

Other titles in this series

• Level - 1: A new friend
• Level - 1: At the beach 
• Level - 1: Ice Cream Soup
• Level - 1: Nicky Upstairs and Down 
• Level - 1: Play with Blue
• Level - 1: Tiny goes camping 
• Level - 1: Tiny the Birthday Dog 
• Level - 1: Tiny the Snow Dog 

• Level - 2: Red, White and Blue
• Level - 2: Shape Spotters
• Level - 2: The Garden that we grew  
• Level - 2: The very lonely firefly

• Level - 3: Agapanthus Hum and the Eyeglasses
• Level - 3: Amanda Pig on her own
• Level - 3: Why do birds sing?