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HarperCollins Publishers
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Part of the Collins Big Cat guided reading series for ages 4-7, this play includes an old man, and a pizza-eating boy who knows a lot about llamas, chimpanzees, giraffes, kangaroos and dinosaurs. |
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A guided reading series for ages 4-7. It includes practical teaching notes at the back of each book. It`s time to tug up that gigantic turnip says the old man who planted it, but how will he and the old lady pull up such an enormous vegetable. |
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She starts by swallowing a mere fly, but ends up eating a much bigger animal! Find out what fate awaits the old lady in this playscript by Michael Rosen and Mark Carthew, based on the traditional poem. |
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-9 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. How do people survive catastrophes liking being lost at sea? What do you do when the odds are stacked aganist you? Find out in these exciting recounts of real-life adventures. |
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-9 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. Watch out, there are monsters about — and they are smaller than you might think! Find out about the world's small but monstrous creatures in this fantastic non-fiction book. |
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What`s the tallest building in the world? How long did it take to build the Eiffel Tower? How have cars developed? Find out the answers and trace how designs have changed through the years and across the world in this visually stunning information book. |
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. Three spooky tales from three peerless storytellers, perfect for telling around the fire on a dark, windy night. Darkly comical, these will send a delicious shiver down your spine. Read of Flynn, who battled with three skeletons; of Tom, who saw something so weird in the moonlight that it changed his life for ever; and of the terrifying thirteen crows who brought death wherever they went... |
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. Is the world's climate changing? We all know the theory but here is the evidence, in stunning photographs and information. A stimulating approach to a topical subject. |
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The Camel Fair is a non-fiction recount of a holiday in India, accompanied by spectacular, atmospheric photographs. The highlight of the visit, and the central focus of the book, is the Pushkar Camel Fair. The event is recounted in a letter format through the eyes of a child, Sarina who is visiting relatives. * White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. * Text type — A recount of a visit. * A flow diagram explaining how to get onto a camel is included on pages 30 and 31 to encourage children to discuss the information. * Curriculum links — Geography: Where in the World is Barnaby bear? Passport to the World; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world. * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. |
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One day mysterious green clouds arrive in a fairy-tale kingdom and explode into a fine green dust, bringing an outbreak of mayhem and sneezing. All the King’s men can do is think of ever more silly ideas, and it is left to two children to save the Kingdom from the Sneezles. |
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A not very special cat loves nothing better than hearing the stories told in her library, or by her cat friends. Then one day she accidentally gets locked in the library over a holiday! With nothing else to do but wait, Tiger starts looking at the books on the shelves… |
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The ideal way to try Collins Big Cat, to plug gaps and to refresh your reading resources at unbeatable prices. Starter sets contain a complete list of titles from each band or Key Stage with a big discount on the normal price. Containing one of every title in the Collins Big Cat White band, with 14 books in total. |
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«Cinderella is tired of a life of chores, but everything changes when her fairy godmother turns up. Just as she meets her perfect prince, though, the clock chimes twelve and she has to run. Will this hilarious retelling of the traditional fairytale, as a play by «the nation's dramatist» David Wood, end happily ever after? * White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. * Text type: A playscript of a traditional story. * A newspaper article of the palace ball on pages 30 and 31 helps children to recap the main events of the story. * Curriculum links: Citizenship: Taking part — developing skills of communication and participation; Music: Play it again — exploring rhythmic patterns.» |
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It's just a normal lesson on a normal day at school, except Mrs Bennet , who can do magic, has turned into a very big rabbit. The problems start when the class realise that Mrs Bennet can't change back into herself. * White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. * Text type — A story with a familiar setting. * A school website report gives children the opportunity to recount the story of Class Six and the Very Big Rabbit on pages 30 and 31. * Curriculum links — Citizenship: Choices, Taking part. * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. |
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Explore the extraordinary world of fossils; find out how they're formed, where to find them and how to identify them in this information book. Written by palaeontology expert Dr Andrew Ross, in conjunction with the National Museum of Scotland, this book will help children discover all the fascinating details of different species for themselves. * White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. * Text type: An information book. * An illustrated archaeological dig of the fossils mentioned in the book on pages 30 and 31 helps children to recap what they've learnt and provides a wealth of speaking and listening opportunities. * Curriculum links: Geography: Going to the seaside; History: What was it like to live here in the past? |
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Is There Anyone Out There? investigates whether there is life beyond planet Earth. The non-chronological report examines what we already know about the Solar System and the possibility of life on other planets. It also offers ideas of what aliens in certain sorts of environments might look like. *White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. * Text type — A non-chronological report. * Pages 30 and 31 contain a table of conditions needed to sustain life to encourage children to recap the information. * Curriculum links — Art and design: Mother Nature designer; Science: Forces and movement, Plants and animals, Variation. * Leading science and wildlife author and photographer Nic Bishop has contributed three other titles to Collins Big Cat — Look Out Butterfly!, Fantastic Flying Squirrel and The Cloud Forest. * This title is paired with a story on the same theme: Buzz and Bingo in the Starry Sky by Alan Durant. * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. |
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An exhilarating ride with one of New Zealand’s foremost adventure photographers, Andy Belcher as he takes on the New Zealand Targa Rally against a variety of cars – from 1960s Austin Healeys and Ford Cortinas to the latest Ferraris. Wonderful photography supports Andy’s recount of the trials and tribulations of this exciting event. |
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Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. Imagine you were a child in Victorian times. What was your day like? What did you wear, eat and play with? Did you go to school, or out to work? Find out what life was like for children in this enthralling non-fiction book. |
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The survival of the white continent’s most famous inhabitants is the subject of this beautiful book. The beauty of Antarctic and the enchanting secrets of its penguin population is brought to life with a delightful series of photographs by the Big Cat Diaries team of Jonathan and Angela Scott. |
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In this comical adventure, Buzz and Bingo find themselves in Outer Space trying to help a lost alien, XY5, find his parents. Along the way they meet a number of glittering constellations in the starry sky and a whole family of aliens. But after assisting XY5 they find themselves with the problem of trying to get back to earth. * White/Band 10 books have more complex sentences and figurative language. * Text type — A humorous fantasy story. * Pages 30 and 31 show an illustration of the night sky and the star formations observed by Buzz and Bingo in space, providing lots of opportunities for speaking and listening. * Curriculum links — Citizenship: Living in a diverse world, Taking part. * This is the return of Buzz and Bingo for the third in their mini-series. * This book is paired with an informatio book on the same theme: Is There Anyone Out There? * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery. |
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