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Product Description In this cluster, Sam comes up with some inventive ways to prevent flooding in Sam's Flood Plan. The children decide to build a raft and go for a ride, but when the raft crashes Max, Cat and Tiger have to think of a clever way to rescue Ant in the two part adventure A Wild Ride and Don't LookDown! We also sail across the Atlantic with Michael Perham on his record breaking adventure and find out all about the water cycle in the two non fiction books, Atlantic Adventure and The Water Cycle.Each book comes with notes for parents that highlight tricky words or concepts in the books, prompt questions and suggest a range of follow-up activities. The Water Guided Reading Notes provide step-by-step guided reading support for each book in the Water cluster, together with guidance aboutcomprehension, assessment for learning and vocabulary enrichment. Hands-on follow-up activities and cross-curricular links are also provided for each book. About the Author Tony Bradman has been involved with children's books for nearly thirty years, as a reviewer, editor, poet and writer of stories. He has published more than 200 books for children of all ages, and his work has been translated into more than twenty languages and read all over the world, as wellas being adapted for television. He is probably best known for the Dilly the Dinosaur books, and one of his stories is currently being adapted into a film by Cartoon Network. Tony has three children and two grandchildren, and lives in London.