Red Bananas: Snakes and Ladders Award-winning author by Michael Morpurgo (author)

At school, the kids call her ‘Weedy Wendy’ – but Wendy isn’t afraid of Slinky, Grandad’s snake. And when she takes Slinky to school and he wriggles out of her bag, brave Wendy will do anything to rescue him! Is this a chance to prove she’s not so weedy after all? A hilarious story of turning the tables from favourite author Michael Morpurgo, with colour pictures and a simple yet fulfilling text for newly fluent solo readers.

Product Details

Series

Red Bananas

Format

Paperback

ISBN

9781405260817

Publisher

Egmont Books Ltd

Date published

May 7th, 2012

Lexile measure

600L

Accelerated Reader

AR book level: 3.6; Lower years; 0.5 points

Other details

48 pages

Condition

New

Part of this Series

Red Bananas

Author/Illustrator

Michael Morpurgo

Michael Morpurgo is a master storyteller, weaving captivating stories full of drama and intensity that are coming to be regarded as true classics. Exploring the most profound subjects with a light yet powerful touch, his books tell unforgettable stories in simple, direct words.

Michael Morpurgo discovered his talent for writing while working as a teacher. “We had to read the children a story every day and my lot were bored by the book I was reading. I decided I had to do something and told them the kind of story I used to tell my kids – it was like a soap opera, and they focused on it. I could see there was magic in it for them, and realised there was magic in it for me.”

Living in Devon, listening to Mozart, and working with children have provided most of the stimulae Michael needs to discover and write his stories. He spends about half his life mucking out sheds with the children, feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up and writing stories. “For me, the greater part of writing is daydreaming, dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out – the writing down of it I always find hard. But I love finishing it, then holding the book in my hand and sharing my dream with my readers.”