This book is part of a book series called Pobblebonk Reading .
. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels.
This book was published 2008 by Cambridge University Press .
Dianne (Di) Bates lives in Woollongong, NSW, and has been writing children's books for the past 20 years. She has published over 70 titles and has won two children's choice awards, as well as the 1993 Special Prize in the Australian Multicultural Children's Book Awards. She describes The Shape as her most important book to date as it is based on a personal experience. Di started her literary career as Assistant to the Editor of the NSW Dept of Education School Magazine. Since then she has co-edited the children's magazine, Puffinalia and has worked at hundreds of schools as a performer. Sally Rippin (illustrator) is the writer and illustrator of the Fang Fang books. Fang Fang's Chinese New Year was the winner of the 1997 Crichton Award.
This book is in the following series:
Pobblebonk Reading
Pobblebonk Readings is a set of shared reading materials for the early years that encourage children to read and repeat words along with the teacher and that lead to independent reading. It sets out to provide a series of interesting reading materials that incorporates the phonic principles in high-interest texts with a good balance of non-fiction, fiction and real-life contexts. Special care is taken to accommodate the needs and interests of reluctant readers, particularly boys. The series seeks to ensure success in reading and writing in the critical early years through the explicit teaching of phonics while using authentic, meaningful materials. Pobblebonk Reading has 10 modules of texts. Each module has 10 books of varying page extents ranging from 8 to 16 pages. Overall, there is a gradual increase in the complexity of the texts across the modules.
