Product Description Six exciting and much-loved children's classics sensitively adapted to enrich your junior pupils' reading, with free Teaching Notes to support teaching of comprehension skills and strategies. These books have masses of boy and girl appeal and will introduce your readers to significant authorsfrom the past - a key part of the Literacy Strategy. In addition, the comprehension questions and teaching notes will help you to draw out and practice difficult comprehension strategies such as inference, empathy and deduction. Each book features 2 author biographies - one for the original authorand one for the TreeTops author. Plus, there are notes to help with historical and social context and any challenging vocabulary, ensuring the books are easily accessible. About the Author Awards for Sally Prue:Cold Tom - winner of the Branford Boase Award and the Smarties Silver Award (2002). Awards for Susan Gates:Sheffield Children's Book Award 1995 for Beware The Killer CoatCarnegie Medal 1995 Commendation for RaiderShortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize 1995 for RaiderStockport Children's Book Award 1998 for Ironhead Nick Warburtonmember of the Writers' Guild of Great BritainVisiting Fellow at University College Chichester.