Animal Survivors (Reading Ladder Level 3)
By (Author) Clive Gifford
Illustrated by Sarah Horne
HarperCollins Publishers
Red Shed
6th April 2023
4th May 2017
United Kingdom
Primary and Secondary Educational
Non Fiction
Childrens / Teenage fiction: Nature and animal stories
591
Paperback
32
Width 145mm, Height 212mm, Spine 3mm
80g
Animal Survivors is an engaging non-fiction reader that will help make learning to read fun and interesting.
Are you ready to discover the extraordinary ways that creatures can survive Meet the incredible survivors of the animal world including some heroic pets, frauds and fakers, long-living legends and sneaky tricksters.
The Reading Ladder series helps children to enjoy learning to read. It features favourite topics, well-loved authors and classic characters so that children will find something to excite and engage them in every title they pick up. Its the first step towards a lasting love of reading.
Level 3 Reading Ladder titles are perfect for fluent readers who are beginning to read exciting, challenging books independently.
Varied sentences
Detailed illustrations to enjoy
Contains a glossary and index
More technical language
A rich range of vocabulary
Higher word count
All Reading Ladder titles are developed with a leading literacy consultant, making them perfect for use in schools and for parents keen to support their childrens reading.
Book band level: Gold
More level 3 non-fiction reading ladder books to collect: A day in the life of Triceratops, A day in the life of T. rex, Senses, Romans and The Water Cycle.
For more information about the series and advice on supporting children's reading, see our reading ladder page here
Clive Gifford is an award-winning author of books for children and adults including the astonishing Dead or Alive, the creepy Book of Bad Things and the brain mangling Think Again and Eye Benders. He is passionate that books should entertain, inform and amaze whenever possible. A contributor to Encyclopedia Britannica, Clive's books have won School Library Association, PBS, Smithsonian and Times Educational Supplement, as well as the prestigious Royal Society Young People's Book Prize.
Sarah Horne lives in London, and has illustrated many childrens books including Monster House, The Sesame Seade Mysteries and the Guinea Pigs Online series. Continuously drawing from a young age, Sarahs strength is in her draftsmanship and line work, she loves colour and one of the real joys of her illustration work is adding the extra humour in the detail. Sarah likes to travel, loves music, she doesnt care for mice and loves a good cup of coffee.
Clive Gifford is an award-winning writer whose first book was published at the age of seventeen. He has received commendations from PBS, the Smithsonian Museum and NAPPA and received the TES Information Book of the Year award. He has also worked as a features writer for Real Robots magazine. He has written over 80 non-fiction books including Inside Robots (Dorling Kindersley), The Kingfisher Encyclopaedia of Motorsport, How to Live on Mars, (OUP) and How the Future Began (Kingfisher). Sarah Horne is the much loved illustrator of Charlie Changes into a Chicken and hilarious sequels, Charlie Turns into a T-rex and Charlie Morphs into a Mammoth, written by Sam Copeland. She has over fifteen years experience illustrating books for children as well as for magazines and newspapers including the Guardian.