Morris Plays Hide and Seek: A story with a familiar setting about a game of hide and seek. (Collins Big Cat) - Softcover

Morris wants to eat his kitty biscuits, but his mother sends him off to play hide and seek instead. When it’s Morris’s turn to hide, he finds the perfect place: the food cupboard, where the kitty biscuits are kept!

· Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.

· Text type – A story with a familiar setting.

· A storyboard on pages 22 and 23 offers and opportunity for children to retell the story in their own words.

· Curriculum links – Citizenship: Taking part.

· This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

· This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Vivian French worked in children’s theatre for ten years before she established herself as a storyteller. In 1988 she began to write for children and has had over 40 books published since them, including her Morris books and two Sleepovers, and the 3rd Century story in Centuries of Stories for Collins.

She has travelled from Orkney to Oklahoma talking about children’s books; is a visiting lecturer at the University of the West of England and reviews for the Guardian.