Heroes and monsters; gods and goddesses; adventure and excitement: all are to be found in this book, which contains four well-known myths and legends from Ancient Greece told in an accessible style. Find out how Theseus killed the minotaur, how Daedelus escaped from the maze and why Herakles longed for a rest!

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

 A humorous magazine interview with Herakles on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the myth of The Labours of Herakles and examine how another text type might represent the material.

 Text type: Three traditional tales

 Curriculum links: History: Who were the Ancient Greeks? How do we use Ancient Greek ideas today?

 This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Great Greek Myths - Band 16/Sapphire

Young Hercules is challenged by the King to carry out seven labours - no problem, although the King is less impressed when he brings back the evidence and stinks out the palace.

 Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.

 Text type - A playscript of a traditional tale.

 Pages 30 and 31 feature a 'wanted poster' for a your man answering to Hercules description, providing a great starting point for lots of speaking, listening and writing activities.

 Curriculum links - Citizenship: Taking part, Living in a diverse world, Animals and us.

 This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

 This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Hercules: Superhero - Band 11/Lime

A mini-series of titles aimed at 6 - 8 year old girls on the theme of bridesmaids - a role that every little girl longs to play!

 The Grumpy Bridesmaid

 Izzy is fed up. Her sister is getting married on the same day as her pony club Gymkhana. The day she was supposed to ride Crackers in the Chase Me Charlie Competition. Not even being a bridesmaid can cheer her up until her sister announces she wants a horse and carriage to take her to the wedding. Izzy comes to the rescue when Crackers refuses to budge at a traffic light and she has to don riding hat and ridge him to the church - in her bridesmaid dress!

The Grumpy Bridesmaid

A fifth title in the popular Bridesmaids series, aimed at 6 - 8 year old girls [but not including the boys, of course!]

 Jess is a talented young athlete. When her athletics teacher asks her to be a bridesmaid at their wedding, she jumps at the chance! But this is a wedding with a difference - the bride and groom are to run in a marathon and Jess has to run part of the way with them! But when a traffic jam threatens to stop her getting to the reception, she puts on her trainers again and jogs all the way there!

 [The young model on the cover of this title - Ruwa Murapa-Foster - is herself a buddling gymnast and was about to be in her Hertfordshire regional finals a couple of days after the photo shoot!]

The Sporty Bridesmaid

Mademoiselle Perroquet est en train de préparer les déguisements pour une pièce qui va se jouer à l'école. Pendant qu'elle a le dos tourné, Potimarron enfile un costume de dragon et décide de s'amuser un peu. Potimarron sème la panique, et transforme son déguisement en charpie. Heureusement, Zoé a une excellente idée...

Potimarron le dragon

Partout où Bob va, il y a comme un grincement. Est-ce que Bob aurait besoin d'huile ? Pas du tout, c'est à cause de ses nouvelles bottes de travail ! Les bottes de Bob attirent trois minuscules nouveaux amis qui font peur à Coccigrue. Il détale à travers champs et heurte Cui-Cui et Potimarron, eux-mêmes engagés dans une course-poursuite. Bob peut les attraper ? Oui, il peut !

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