Clown School

by Paul Shipton, Beccy Blake (Illustrator)

Including reading notes for parents/carers on the inside covers, this work, which is bookbanded, contains Guided reading cards and teaching notes.

24 pages, Paperback

First published January 27, 2005

About the author

Paul Shipton (born 1963) is an award-winning children's author.

He was born in Manchester and attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and Manchester University. After completing two Masters' degrees (in Classics and Philosophy), he taught English in Istanbul for a year. After returning to the UK, he taught English as a foreign language for several years, and it was around this time that he published his first book, Zargon Zoo (1991).

Four years later, he published Bug Muldoon and the Garden of Fear, and relocated with his family to Wisconsin, United States, where he works as a freelance writer and editor. He also writes books for younger readers under the pen name Paul Cooper. He and his wife and two daughters now divide their time between Cambridge, England, and Madison, Wisconsin.

Reviews

[MK]

The Snapdragon series has longer sentences than the Oxford reader series.
Recommended for children over 6 years old.