Best Selling Books by Pippa Goodhart

Carl is sick of getting pushed around by big Ben Schultz. One day, Carl and his best friend, Kate, find a sick newt in a pond. They fish it out and nurse it back to health. As the newt gets better, Carl feeds it some very expensive -growth beans- that have an amazing effect on the newt -- it gets huge! Finally Ben finds out what it''s like to be small, and Carl finds out that Ben really just wants a friend. Main Characters: Carl, Kate, Ben, MomText Type: Diaries, Journals, and LogsTheme/Topic: Life Science, Media and Communication

Jo-Jo wishes she were small like her new baby sister Roo until Dad says Jo-Jo is big enough to have a birthday party with invited guests, jumping games, and hidden presents.

Margaret the Mermaid is the youngest of her brothers and sisters and has always wanted to visit the land above the sea. When her father grants her wish on her 8th Birthday, she finally learns what it''s like to be human, but will she decide to stay Up There? The Little Mermaid is part of the Galaxy range of books from Rising Stars Reading Planet. Galaxy provides captivating fiction and non-fiction for Pink A to White band. The rich collection of highly decodable books immerses children in a range of cross-curricular topics and genres. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and activities to support reading at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 6-7 years

Maxine and Minnie have so much in common, but they''re very different too. Great Auntie Dot helps them to make old-looking family trees, and Maxine and Minnie pretend to be Victorian. Playing orphans starts Minnie wondering, and finally her mother tells her the story of her dad, who died before she was born.

Oxford Reading Tree Story Sparks is an emotionally-engaging fiction series that will fire children''s imaginations. These original stories will get children thinking, and develop and deepen their comprehension skills. The variety of authors and illustration styles broadens children''s readingexperience, with something to appeal to every child.This pack contains one of each of the following original stories: Dear Mum, Bad, Bad Dog, Snoot, My Sabre-tooth Pet, How the Bink Got Its Stink, Looga and Barooga: The Treasure of Soap Island.All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it''s easy to match every child to the right book for them. They also contain inside cover notes, to enable parents and teachers to support children in their reading. Help with children''s reading development is also available at ahref="https://www.oxfordowl.co.uk/"www.oxfordowl.co.uk/a.

A charming new Christmas story from acclaimed author Pippa Goodhart and artist Ema Malyauka - for ages 5 and over. Christmas is the most magical time of the year, and Old Bear is excited to spend it with her friends! If only these spindly spiders would stay out of the way! The tree is decorated perfectly for the party, but whilst Old Bear sleeps, the spiders come out to play, decorating the tree with their wondrous webs! Will Old Bear and friends see the beauty in the spiders'' hard work? Old Bear is nostalgic for the Christmasses of her childhood, when everything felt magical - maybe she can recreate that feeling with her friends this year by throwing a party! Shooing away the pesky spiders, Old Bear decorates her house from top to toe, with a glorious Christmas tree, delicately iced cookies and colourful paper chains. While she sleeps soundly that night, the spiders, sad that they haven''t been invited, decide to peek at the jolly decorations and weave their winding wondrous webs. Morning dawns and Bear is distraught - what will her friends think?! But when the spiders beautiful work is revealed in the sunlight to the party guests, it evokes the magical Christmas feeling Bear was craving all along.

Three mischievous ghosts love scaring little children, until the children decide to take matters into their own hands.

What will you choose: a horn or a harp? Perhaps you’re more interested in different forms of transportation: would you prefer a boat or a hot-air balloon? The possibilities are endless and the choice is yours. Featuring hundreds of artifacts from the British Museum, this is a book readers will pore over time and time again.

This book is part of TreeTops Fiction, a structured reading programme providing juniors with stories they will love to read. Offering chapter books with full-colour illustrations, written by well-known authors, these stories are full of humour and have real boy appeal. They are tightly levelled allowing children to read books appropriate to their ability. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of up-to-date and invaluable teaching notes.

Life is so busy! On his way to school, Joe is missing all the exciting things happening around him - he is in such a rush, he doesn''t even notice his little sister crying! Given a task to draw what he saw on his way to school, Joe decides to stop time to appreciate all the little details that make life meaningful, and find out why Poppy was crying.

Maxine and Minnie are very different—Maxine is big and bold while Minnie is quiet and shy—but they become best friends. These are simple stories of friendship for beginning readers—staying at another''s house overnight, losing a tooth, performing in a school assembly.

First class fiction at an appropriate interest level, the books in TreeTops More All Stars Pack 3A provide: BLQuality books by top authors and illustrators to challenge and motivate your children, including the retelling of a classic story BLThe right level of content, at an appropriate interest level for Year 2 children BLCareful text levelling to gradually build stamina Also available are flexible Teaching Notes (ISBN 0-19-919623-0) to provide support for much more than guided reading. The other titles in TreeTops More All Stars Pack 3A are: Huge and Horrible Beast, Dancing the Night Away, Mary-Anne and the Cat Baby, Duperball, and Arabian Nights. They are available in a Pack of six (ISBN 0-19-919616-8) and a Class Pack (ISBN 0-19-919615-X), containing 6 of each title.

Big Cat likes to catch and play with mice, but eventually the tables are turned.

Dog loves music and wants to join the band. Cat, Bird and Rabbit can''t stand Dog''s howl...but then he discovers his talent for drumming!The Tiddlers series features fun stories with a word count of fewer than 50 words for children who are just starting to read.A word list at the beginning of the story allows for a quick check of the reader''s ability to read and understand words before reading, and a puzzle at the end of the story encourages rereading for pleasure.

Includes activities that cover a range of tasks in Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening.