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Magical Beasts for Beginners

Gus and Lily-May are helping look after the magical beasts but they are only beginners. Will they do well?

No specific phonic structure to these books, as children should be able to work out most reasonably common words without difficulty.
Vocabulary choices are appropriate to this young readership and not too complex or demanding.
Plots and characters are still mostly clear and straightforward to follow. There are still plenty of opportunities for prediction, discussion and thinking about the story.
A wider range of sentence structures can be used – still mostly simple and speech-like, but with some that are longer/multi-clause.
Plots are still straightforward and linear, but they may be developed over more pages or require a bit more thought to understand.
Story is split into simple chapters,