Books

The challenge is to build the very best sled for the sand hills. Who will be the winner?

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By Betsy Sewell – 997 words

The fish and chip shop is shut, so to get fish and chips, you must first make a fishing rod…

By Betsy Sewell – 749 words

All summer long, the lazy cricket mocks the ant hard at work storing food for the winter, but when winter comes, he wants to be friends.

By Betsy Sewell – 916 words

A girl makes friends with a ghost trapped under her bed.

By Betsy Sewell – 1006 words

Digging for coal in the days when dark tunnels were lit by candles attached to the miner’s helmet; and how to get the better of a mean and selfish boss.

By Betsy Sewell – 2041 words 

Mum loses the jar of jam she has just bought, and it is found by one person in need of sustenance after another, until Mum finds it just where she left it, containing nothing but a fat slug with a single red foot. What does Mum think has happened?

By Betsy Sewell – 1137 words

There are many versions of this fable – this version will be new to most children.

By Betsy Sewell – 484 words

What an absolutely fascinating little creature the limpet is! What ingenious ways it has of protecting itself against its enemies!

By Betsy Sewell – 1018 words

When the mine collapsed trapping the miners for 69 days, Edison Pena kept his sanity by running, and became the hero of the New York marathon.

By Betsy Sewell – 1682 words 

The old Tom cat just wants to rest, but is pestered by a playful rabbit.

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By Betsy Sewell – 282 words

A giant Pacific octopus finds itself stuck in the gullet of a blue whale. He muses on the strategies he has to avoid the real enemy, the sperm whale, but none of these help with this predicament. This is a level 4 book. The words octopus and whale are not mentioned, but there are enough clues to figure it out.

By Betsy Sewell – 1816 words

Gran comes to look after a child in bed with mumps, and explains about being sick in her childhood.

By Betsy Sewell – 485 words

How do you escape from a heavily guarded World War 2 prison camp? When all else fails, build a glider and fly out!

By Betsy Sewell – 2362 words 

The lives of the Turkish nomads, who depend absolutely on their sheep.

By Betsy Sewell – 1368 words 

Going to the rugby, but the car will not start.

By Betsy Sewell – 195 words

In the days before text messaging, television or even radio, it was the children of New Zealand who spread the news that World War 1 was over.

By Betsy Sewell – 1056 words