Rough and Tumble

The ten stories in this collection all feature very naughty children, five boys and five girls. There's Emil - who gets his head stuck in a soup tureen, Little Alpesh - who manages to destory a multi-storey car park with his amazing conker, and Marmalade Atkins - who takes her donkey to the Ritz Hotel, to name just three. A number of the 'stories' are in fact episodes from novels, such as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Chris Powling's The Conker as Hard as a Diamond - a great favourite with young juniors. With authors such as Dick King-Smith, Gene Kemp, Astrid Lindgren and Andrew Davies included, this is great fun in its own right. Ideal for both reading aloud and solo reading, as well as being the possible starting point for further exploration of work by the chosen writers. A number of poems, in keeping with the theme (some by George English himself), are interspersed among the stories.