Collins Big Cat - Selim Hassan The Seventh: Band 17/Diamond

Vivian French, Illustrated by Tim Stevens
Part of the Collins Big Cat series 
Paperback  •  978-0-00-723103-4  •  Sep  2008

In Selim-Hassan the Seventh, a teenager is determined not to follow in his father’s footsteps (but his great-great-great-great grandfather has other ideas). In The Wall, a young nomadic girl is determined to return her grandmother to the land of her birth, across the Great Wall of China.

• Two alternative career paths for Selim-Hasan on pages 54 and 55 help children to discuss the options that Selim-hassan had and the decisions he made.

• Text type: Two stories from other cultures

• Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world.