The Stage 9 Biff, Chip and Kipper stories provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories and More Stories continue to provide a mix of fantasy settings and familiar situations. More complex sentences develop stamina, to enable readers to progress with confidence.
Read with my Turkish host family's children. A nice gentle introduction to the trope of the fantasy quest with some interesting elements: a magic bell, a unicorn, a gnome, a basilisk and a dragon. The evil teddy-bear was a perfect twist. Wrapped up a little too neatly and easily and the writing reminds me of the fantasy quest stories I wrote as a child, but it was a cute read.