Reading Gems: the Star and the Zoo (level 1)

The animals are settling down for the night when a star falls from the sky into the zoo. Little Star is desperate to get back home, but who will help her? The Star and the Zoo is all about learning to work together. It explores themes of kindness, friendship and teamwork. Reading Gems is a series designed to spark a love of reading. It is a supplementary reading programme that is graded into four levels to perfectly suit a child's reading ability from an emerging reader to a confident, independent reader. Parents and teachers can be reassured that children are reading books that support their ability, challenge their reading skills and encourage reading confidence with every word on the page. The books will be loved by both children and parents and are perfect for supporting learning at school.

Virginie Zurcher grew up in France and now lives in Hong Kong. An exciting new author, Star of the Zoo is her first book. She lives in Hong Kong. Daniel Howarth started drawing from a very early age and went on to study Art at college and then university. He graduated with a degree in Illustration in 1994 and started creating his own range of greetings cards with his wife and fellow children's author, Heidi Howarth, whom he met at university. Daniel works from his studio in Exeter and enjoys the wealth of inspiration and imagination that comes from living deep in the Devon countryside with his wife and two children.

The animals are settling down for the night when a star falls from the sky into the zoo. Little Star is desperate to get back home, but who will help her? The animals are settling down for the night when a star falls from the sky into the zoo. Little Star is desperate to get back home, but who will help her? The Star and the Zoo is all about learning to work together. It explores themes of kindness, friendship and teamwork. Reading Gems is a series designed to spark a love of reading. It is a supplementary reading programme that is graded into four levels to perfectly suit a child's reading ability from an emerging reader to a confident, independent reader. Parents and teachers can be reassured that children are reading books that support their ability, challenge their reading skills and encourage reading confidence with every word on the page. The books will be loved by both children and parents and are perfect for supporting learning at school.

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