A history of Dubai, told through stunning aerial photos. Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.Text type – An information book.Curriculum links – Geography: ‘interpret a range of sources of geographical information, including … aerial photographs’.Check comprehension and embed learning with a reader response spread on pages 22–23.
Rob lives in Suffolk, quite near a castle. With his dog Tuppy for company, he works from a shed in his garden, and writes every day. Sometimes, Tuppy and Rob walk round the castle, and they think about the next thing that Rob should write about.