Books with author Rosalind Kerven

The new moon rises and marks the end of Ramadan: it is time to celebrate Id-ul-Fitr! After the month of fasting known as Ramadan, everyone in the Islamic community looks forward to exchanging cards and gifts, then sitting down to enjoy a big family meal. This engaging read teaches about the history and practice of this exciting holiday, as well as how Muslims say thank you to God with this happy festival. A section on how to make special Id cards and traditional delicacies—such as Id pudding—is also included.

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), The Weather Drum is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories from a Range of Cultures. This set of nine stories contain a variety of language and illustration styles, reflecting the myths, folk tales and fairy stories of the many different cultures from which they were taken. The Weather Drum by Rosalind Kerven is a Siberian folk tale about great chief Universe and his wife Rain Woman who conjure terrible storms with their drum. The illustrations by Vladyana Krykorka depict the traditional lifestyle of the Koryak people, from whom the story comes. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading. This pack of 6 is for guided group reading.

The "Storyworlds" scheme offers graded texts to ensure steady progression of reading skills in a highly supportive structure. The books may be used for guided, independent or take-home work. Each text is correlated to Book Bands. The "Storyworlds" genre-based approach is closely matched to the requirements of the NLS, English Language 5-14 and English in the Northern Ireland Curriculum. Stories from four "Worlds" - our world, fantasy world, once upon a time world and animal world - provide a range of settings, as recommended in each curriculum. Further coverage is provided by guided reading cards, which provide key teaching objectives for every title, and in the teaching guides.

Ingrid and Kjartan live in the troubled Viking Age: danger is everywhere and no stranger can be trusted. So what should they do when a foreigner comes knocking at their door, begging for help? The law-makers are hunting him down as an evil criminal, but he insists he is innocent. As they struggle to discover the truth, the two children are swept up into a terrifying adventure and a desperate race against time. Sorcery and Gold is one of eleven books that make up Extended Reading Level B, for children in Year 6/Primary 7. This phase of Cambridge Reading has an increased provision of extended narratives and aims to develop children's knowledge about language, its vocabulary, forms, structures and styles. This book's Viking setting means it can be read in conjunction with the KS2 History syllabus.