The Runaway Bannock

An extension of the successful White Wolves brand for KS1. All titles are written by best-selling authors, and feature fresh, contemporary illustrations. Full colour illustrations throughout and short chapters ease the transition from picture books to young fiction. Series devised in close consultation with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. This book ties in with themes demanded by the NLS for Year 2: folk tales. Teacher resources written by experts.

A little old man and a little old woman are surprised when their dinner jumps up from the table and runs away. They get up and run after it, but will it ever be caught?A little old man and the little old woman live in Scotland. They have no money and nothing to eat but thin cabbage soup. When a goblin appears with a bag of flour, they think their dreams have come true. But this is not any flour...This is magic flour. The little old lady bakes a bannock, but this bannock is not any bannock. It runs away before they can eat it! They run after the bannock and, along the way, they are joined in the chase by some other people who fancy a bite of the bannock, too. But will this bannock ever be caught?