How Beetle Got A Colourful Coat – Sarah Snashall & Valeria Valenza

Description

In this world tale from Brazil, Beetle and Rat live on the forest floor, but both long to be higher up in the rainforest like the other much more colourful creatures. A parrot tells them to have a race and whoever wins will get a colourful coat.

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)