How the Leopard Got His Spots – Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories – Read Along

May 11, 2021May 11, 2021 Shoo Rayner

The leopard is happy to be sandy-yellow and greyish-brow all over. But when he goes to the speckly-spiclkly forest, he begins to wonder if spots would be better…

A fresh, new retelling of the classic Just So Story. The author, Rudyard Kipling, also wrote the Jungle Book over a hundred years ago. How the Leopard Got His Spots has been re-written, illustrated and told by award – winning British children’s author and illustrator, Shoo Rayner, to bring it up to date with more modern ideas, language and idioms while keeping all the essential fun, language and playfulness of the original.

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Reading and Literacy · Stories

The Cat That Walked By Himself – Rudyard Kipling – Just So Stories – Read Along

April 29, 2021April 29, 2021 Shoo Rayner

The Cat is the wildest Animal in the Wild Wet Woods. But when he sees the Man and Woman living in a warm, dry cave, he starts thinking about how he can join them…

A fresh, new retelling of the classic Just So Story. The author, Rudyard Kipling, also wrote the Jungle Book over a hundred years ago. The Cat that Walked by Himself has been re-written, illustrated and told by award – winning British children’s author and illustrator, Shoo Rayner, to bring it up to date with more modern ideas, language and idioms while keeping all the essential fun, language and playfulness of the original.

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books · Stories

Pre-order Walker and the Mystery of the Missing Millions – signed copies + badge!

January 18, 2021March 3, 2021 Shoo Rayner

It’s a Thriller!

The Police want to speak to Walker – There’s a mysterious van lurking in the Village and a mysterious man, and his nasty little dog, lurking in the woods.

The horrible Arlington Wherewithall is in jail but he can still make things difficult and scary for Stella and Walker – the boy who can talk to dogs. How much worse can things get in book two?

The second book in the Walker and Stella Mysteries is available 25th March 2021. Pre-order for signed copies with limited edition (and availability badge) direct from Firefly ress here.