书名：The Cloud Kingdom: A Branches Book (the Last Firehawk #7)
读者对象：6-8岁

作者：Katrina Charman
出版社名称：Scholastic
出版时间：2019
语种：英语
ISBN：9781338307177
商品尺寸：13.3 x 1.3 x 19.1 cm
包装：平装
页数：96（以实物为准）

【Branches系列特点】

分级读本内容简单易懂，页数在24-28页左右，适合4-6岁孩子阅读，插图和文字比例为50：50，页数为80-96页之间。而传统章节书词汇难度高，有些会带黑白插图，页数至少在96页以上，适合7-11岁孩子阅读。

因此，孩子从分级读本直接过渡到一般传统的章节书往往出现阅读困难，故事内容不理解，直接导致持续阅读难，甚至讨厌阅读，不想继续阅读。

Branches系列非常好地解决了这个问题。它帮助孩子平缓地从分级读本过渡到传统章节书的阅读。

多个系列，对应孩子喜欢的个性人物，故事有趣，剧情设计简单，情节紧凑，每一页都有插图，插图丰富，指向性强，充足的上下文线索，帮助孩子理解，孩子会渴望连续阅读，而且读本中会出现大量高频词，适用于自然拼读规则，难易适中，页数适中，孩子阅读更自信！

推荐理由：

1.故事有趣，情节紧凑，插图丰富；

2.故事成系列，孩子会渴望连续阅读；

3.剧情设计简单，上下文线索充足，易于理解；

4.读本中会出现大量高频词，适用于自然拼读规则；

5.难易适中，页数适中，让孩子阅读更自信！

Tag and his friends are on a quest to find Blaze's family!

Pick a book. Grow a Reader!

This series is part of Scholastic's early chapter book line, Branches, aimed at newly independent readers. With easy-to-read text, high-interest content, fast-paced plots, and illustrations on every page, these books will boost reading confidence and stamina. Branches books help readers grow!

Tag and his friends are on a quest to find Blaze's family, the long-lost firehawks. Using only three golden feathers as clues, Tag, Skyla, and Blaze must work together to find the magical Cloud Kingdom. But Cloud Kingdom isn't on any map... how will they find this hidden land? And who will they meet on their journey?

Katrina Charmanwas the recipient of the SCBWI British Isles' Margaret Carey scholarship for fiction in 2013, and in 2014 she was one of the winners of the SCBWI's Undiscovered Voices competition. Katrina's first children's book, the early reader The Ninjabread Man, was published with Franklin Watts (UK) in July 2015. The Last Firehawk is her first early chapter book series. Katrina lives in South East England with her husband and three daughters.