Trixies hilarious diary, written by acclaimed childrens writer, Ros Asquith,tells of her plans to be a world famous trumpet player, horse rider and firstchild president of the world. She is also determined to teach animals to read!But when her beloved puppy is sick, everything changes.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop childrens sustainedengagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Text type: A humorous recount.

A hilarious diary for her pet dog on pages 54-55 allow children to furtherexplore the diary format, while reviewing the book from another perspective.

Curriculum links: Citizenship: Animals and us. Developing our school grounds.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.