Gargling Gorilla
112 pages2007HarperCollins Publishers LimitedISBN 9780007230891
About this book
<p>Brave Tim agrees to look after Rosa's pets. He isn't afraid of vultures or wolfhounds, or even giant rabbits. But he isn't so sure about the gorilla, gargling in the kitchen! A comic story with a familiar setting, from Margaret Mahy.</p> <p>* Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.</p> <p>* Text type - Story with a familiar setting.</p> <p>* The reader response page consists of a story map to encourage children to retell the story in their own words.</p> <p>* Curriculum links - Citizenship: Animals and us; Music: Animal magic, exploring descriptive sounds.</p>
Publication Details
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Limited
- Published
- 2007
- Pages
- 112
- ISBN
- 9780007230891
- Language
- en
About Unknown Author
Margaret Mahy (born in Whakatane, New Zealand) is a well-known New Zealand author of children's and young adult books. While the plots of many of her books have strong supernatural elements, her writing concentrates on the themes of human relationships and growing up. Her books "The Haunting" and "The Changeover" both received the Carnegie Medal of the British Library Association. She has written a little less than 50 novels, including the recent "Alchemy" in 2002. Among her children's books, "A Lion in the Meadow", "The Seven Chinese Brothers", and "The Man Whose Mother was a Pirate" are considered national classics.
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