Over a three-month period he did this more than a dozen times. In the spring of 1994, Daniel Spiegelman shinnied up an abandoned book lift in Columbia University's Butler Library to get to the rare books floor where he then proceeded to dismantle a wall, steal books, reassemble the wall, and sneak back down the shaft. For more information visit Book Band: Lime Ideal for ages 6+ With charming illustrations and online guided reading notes written by the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education (CLPE), this series is ideal for reading both in the classroom and at home.

The Bloomsbury Readers series is packed with brilliant books to get children reading independently in Key Stage 2, with book-banded stories by award-winning authors like double Carnegie Medal winner Geraldine McCaughrean and Waterstones Prize winner Patrice Lawrence, covering a wide range of genres and topics. This humourous version of the stories of Anansi by Andrew Fusek Peters has fun black-and-white illustrations by Sara Ugolotti and is perfect for children who are developing as readers. So she makes a ladder up into the sky, determined to bring back the stories, whatever it takes.

Unfortunately, she can't spin a tale, but she can spin a web. Anansi, the cleverest of spiders, sees that down on Earth the people are bored. Nyame the sky god has a special treasure - in a big, brass chest are all the stories ever told. A quirky reworking of the traditional Anansi stories from west Africa by Andrew Fusek Peters.

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