Collins Big Cat - Band 16/Sapphire

Mairi Chisholm was a Scottish motorbike rider who volunteered for the Women''s Emergency Corps during the First World War. Discover how she became one of the famous ''Angels of Pervyse''. Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children''s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Text type: A biography Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. Lynne Rickards was fascinated by the story of Mairi Chisholm, a teenage motorcycle enthusiast who was only 18 when war was declared in 1914. Instead of retreating to the safety of her privileged life as a wealthy debutante, Mairi and her best friend Elsie Knocker rode their motorbikes to London and volunteered as Women''s Auxiliary dispatch drivers. Soon spotted as a fearless and skilful driver, Mairi was recruited to join Dr Hector Munro''s Flying Ambulance Corps, and she and Elsie spent most of the war on the Western Front retrieving wounded soldiers from the battlefields and patching them up, saving over 1,000 lives. Lynne couldn''t help but be inspired by this amazing young woman, and was thrilled to have a chance to share her story in Mairi''s Motorbike.

Product details

• Authors: Lynne Rickards, Rickards Lynne
• Assisted by: Eugene Smith (Illustration)
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 10
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780008424596
• ISBN: 978-0-00-842459-6
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 5 mm
• Series: Collins Big Cat
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; English, History & the past: general interest (Children's / Teenage), JUVENILE NONFICTION / Biography & Autobiography / Historical, JUVENILE NONFICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / Europe, People & places (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 9 years, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales), For primary education, Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Girls and women, Warfare, battles, armed forces (Children's / Teenage), EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary, Lives of children in the past