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Year 3 Fiction Anthology Sample

The document is a story about a man named Pete who has trouble keeping jobs due to his kind nature. Pete loses his job as a gardener because he lets slugs eat the cabbages. He then loses his job as a bus driver because he lets stray animals ride the bus to stay warm. All the animals Pete helped end up following him home.

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Year 3 Fiction Anthology Sample

The document is a story about a man named Pete who has trouble keeping jobs due to his kind nature. Pete loses his job as a gardener because he lets slugs eat the cabbages. He then loses his job as a bus driver because he lets stray animals ride the bus to stay warm. All the animals Pete helped end up following him home.

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Pete’s Peculiar Pet Shop: Just the Job

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Sheila May Bird

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Bug Notes Interesting Words
Help your child to read and
understand these words:
Reading Bug
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stray wanted

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Ask your child questions Skill Builder
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reading so that they build together. Encourage your child to
up a good understanding find clues to his personality in the
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Story Detectives
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Authors and illustrators use lots of different ways


to convey meaning. Once your child has read the
story, go back and look at pages 2 to 11 together.
Look at how the weather and Pete’s facial
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expressions change. Talk about how the illustrator


makes you feel as sad as Pete (e.g. Pete’s
unhappy face, the rain and grey colours) and
then happier again (e.g. smiling faces and
bright colours). Bug Time fun is
on the back page!

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Written by Sheila May Bird


Illustrated by Jim Field

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Pete was mostly a happy man,
but there was one thing that
made him sad. He wanted a job,
but something always went wrong.

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Pete found a job as a gardener.
He liked his job but he let the
slugs eat the cabbages, so ...

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… Pete lost his job.

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He walked home feeling sad. The
slugs liked Pete. He had been kind to
them, so they followed him home.

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The next day Pete went to look for
a new job. This time he got a job as
a bus driver. Pete liked this job.

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But he let the stray animals ride
on the bus to keep warm, so …

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… Pete lost this job too.

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He walked home feeling very sad.


The animals liked Pete, so they
followed him home.
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Soon animals started following Pete
home every day. Then animals started
to turn up on his doorstep. They all

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