Over in the Meadow - Cambridge Reading Author:Richard Brown, Kate Ruttle Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), Over in the Meadow is one of nine books from the Cambridge Reading Poetry strand. This strand offers a variety of language and illustration styles, with plenty of opportunities for speaking and listening. Children will enjoy playing with rhyming patterns and exploring language. Adapted by Kate Ruttle and ... more »Richard Brown this book contains one poem that requires children to count to six. The sunny illustrations by Rosalind Beardshaw will encourage children to count all the animals in the meadow as they read. 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 wider reading.« less