Tree Tops True Stories are exciting motivating non-fiction books which will broaden your pupils reading experience. They are part of a structured reading programme for juniors. This is an unusual but inspiring story of the rise of an Afro-Brazilian boy through the slums of Rio de Janeiro to become for many Brazilians the King of the Carnival. Cartola (meaning top hat) never becomes rich or leisured. He has a hard life on the whole but the music of the Samba beat fills him with joy & inspires him to take up the guitar & become a legend to his countrymen. This book is also available as part of a mixed pack of 6 different books or a class pack of 36 books of the same Oxford Reading Tree stage. Each book pack comes with a free copy of invaluable teaching notes.