Excellent Excuses (And Other Good Stuff) Liz Pinchon

Tom Gates fills the school holidays with plans, music and inventive excuses, while family life gives him plenty more to write and draw about.

Age suitability and learning: Primary (6-8), Older children (9-12). Developing and confident readers can engage with the richer content, with shared reading available when vocabulary or ideas need explaining. The combination of narrative detail and character development rewards growing reading stamina, supporting comprehension, inference, vocabulary and understanding different perspectives.

Available at QT Toys in Battersea.