Wayne's Box

Boxes

by John Prater

Cambridge Reading is a reading scheme providing stimulating books and support materials for the teaching of reading throughout the primary years. Key features include: a coherent yet flexible structure for teaching and learning; a variety of attractive picture books; a balance of text types and genres, including stories, poems and information books; an integrated phonics programme; and comprehensive support materials. Wayne's Box is one of the books in the Becoming a Reader stage of Cambridge Reading. It forms part of a set of nine books in the Fantasy strand written and illustrated by John Prater. Each story features a child who finds a large box. When the box is opened a fantasy character emerges and the child and the character have an adventure together, always with an amusing twist.

16 pages, Paperback

First published February 28, 1996

About the author

John Prater studied graphics at Brighton College of Art and went on to Reading University. He worked in advertising for several years before taking up teaching. He is married with two children and his wife.

His first book, On Friday Something Funny Happened , was runner-up for the 1983 Mother Goose Award, which is presented annually to the most exciting newcomer to children's book illustration. Since then he has illustrated picture books with great success for both Walker Books and The Bodley Head, illustrating such memorable titles as The Kite and Caitlin, Timid Tim and the Cuggy Thief and the sequel Really Brave Tim as well as a number of irresistible bear books for the very young, The Bear went over the Mountain, Number One Tickle your Tum, Again!, Oh Where, Oh Where Board Book, Walking Round the Garden Board Book and a Baby Bear Lift-the-Flap Book.

John continues to work full time as an illustrator and lives with his family near Southampton.