I Am Reading: Oh La La Lottie

Description

Lottie La Belle loves her dog Patrick very much. Patrick won't eat vegetables, so why should she? Lottie turns to eating bread and cheese morning, noon and night. Her piano teacher is the first to notice a change. Eeek! What's that mouse tail doing dangling from under Lottie's skirt? Soon Lottie is a fully-fledged mouse, but when the neighbourhood cats plot against Lottie, something extraordinary happens . . . The I Am Reading series provides just the right balance of challenge and support for newly independent readers. Large, easy-to-read type, satisfying stories by top writers and cheerful full-colour pictures help children make the transition from picture books to chapter books. Each book includes a bookmark flap, tips for beginner readers and either short, numbered chapters or two short stories.

Karen Wallace was born in Canada and grew up in the backwoods of Quebec. She moved to the UK when she was 11 years old. She has had well over 100 books published by Macmillan, Simon & Schuster, Collins, OUP and many others. In 2002 she was nominated for the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize for her memoir Raspberries on the Yangtze. Oh La La Lottie is Karen's second title in the I Am Reading series her first, Albert's Raccoon, was published in 2001. Karen lives in Kington, Herefordshire. Garry Parsons' work has been published by Random House, Puffin, Egmont and Walker Books. Garry has won many awards including the Perth & Kinross Word's Out! Picture Book Prize 2006, Nottingham Children's Book Award 2005 and the Red House Children's Book Award 2004. In his leisure time Garry is a long-distance runner and he ran in the 2007 London marathon. He lives in Nunhead, London.