The Stage 7 Biff, Chip and Kipper stories provide a rich story context to help develop language comprehension and decoding skills. Stories, More Stories A and More Stories B involve familiar situations and a variety of fantasy settings through the magic key adventures. Longer stories help to build stamina.
The story follows Biff, Chip, and Kipper as they go back in time to a place where they make willow pattern pottery.. They end up in ancient China where they meet a girl called Kim who had a cruel dad who wanted her to marry for money, not love. The story informs children of choices,obligations,family, and culture. The illustrations, as standard with this series of books are bright and breezy. Easy reading for mainstream yr 3 children, and a lovely book to read assisted, or indeendently.
Read with my Turkish host family's children. I like the originality of the idea, having an adventure inside a willow pattern, but the execution was just boring. I actually vagued out while reading this, my mouth reading the words but my brain not absorbing them.
I'm not a fan of the higher stages of these books. The plots are boring and don't really tell a great story. The kids have to read them at school, but I won't be reading them for pleasure anymore.