Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), The Weather Drum is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories from a Range of Cultures. This set of nine stories contain a variety of language and illustration styles, reflecting the myths, folk tales and fairy stories of the many different cultures from which they were taken. The Weather Drum by Rosalind Kerven is a Siberian folk tale about great chief Universe and his wife Rain Woman who conjure terrible storms with their drum. The illustrations by Vladyana Krykorka depict the traditional lifestyle of the Koryak people, from whom the story comes. Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to introduce children to a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for
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