PM Purple: The Animal Band (PM Traditional Tales and Plays) Levels 19, 20 by Annette Smith (author)

The Brothers Grimm collected this German folk story (sometimes called ‘The Bremen Town Musicians’) in the early 1800s. Bremen has a statue of the four resouceful animals. Set in a German forest near Bremen in the 18th century.

Purple level titles introduce a variety of topics to promote reading for pleasure and offer plenty of opportunities to look at rhyme and rhythm within words to build fluency and phrasing.

Available for Levels 15–24, *PM Traditional Tales and Plays* retell classic tales in a simplified language and form that children can understand. Teachers use the tales in guided reading sessions and children can later read them with confidence and understanding. Parts are colour-coded for easy recognition.

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