The Haystack

Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), The Haystack is from the Cambridge Reading genre strand Narrative Recounts, a strand which motivates children to explore their personal responses and make links to their own experiences.

Each story in this set of nine marks a significant event from someone's childhood.

Retold by Richard Brown, The Haystack is set in Yeovil, Somerset in 1943, during the Second World War.

Joan Bailey and her little brother Brian lived by a field in which there was a giant haystack.

Brain loved to climb up the haystack like a monkey and jump about on top of it, shouting his head off.

He always went near the edge. Nobody realised how dangerous the haystack could be ...Narrative recounts also provide excellent models for children's own writing.