The Golden Turtle and Other Tales: Band 16/Sapphire

By Gervase Phinn, Linda Selby, Tomislav Zlatic

Three folk tales from around the world retold by the wonderful storyteller Gervase Phinn. In the first, a golden turtle offers a kindly fisherman riches beyond his wildest dreams. In the secod, Amparo's daughter looks sweet, but when she's determined to do something nothing gets in her way. In the third, a naughty leprechaun gets a big shock

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

- A 'wanted' poster on pages 54 and 55 for the leprechaun in the last story helps children to recap all the naughty things he did.

- Text type: Three stories from other cultures.

- This book is paired with The Ultimate World Quiz, a non-fiction information book full of facts about our planet.

- Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Citizenship: Choices, Living in a diverse world.

- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0007231083
• ISBN13: 9780007231089
• Release Date: September 2008
• Publisher: Collins
• Length: 56 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.6" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7