A Friend for Kate - Cambridge Reading Author:Tony Bradman Suitable for children in Year 1 (age 5), A Friend for Kate is from the genre strand Stories with Familiar Settings, a strand where children can identify with the setting and characters and make links with their own experiences. A Friend for Kate is one of nine books written by Tony Bradman and illustrated by Priscilla Lamont. Each story features... more » the children of Class 1 and their teacher, Miss Miller. Young readers will easily relate to the kind of situations in which the children of Class 1 find themselves, and will enjoy meeting the same characters across the nine books. 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