Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), The Grabbing Bird is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Stories about Fantasy Worlds, which contains motivating stories that are full of humour, action and surprise! The Grabbing Bird forms part of a set of nine books which are written by Rosemary Hayes and illustrated by Ian Newsham, which feature ordinary children caught up in strange and magical events. In The Grabbing Bird, two children are transported to a land where the people cannot stop laughing. 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.