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. So you want to be a viking? Find out how in this humorous non-fiction book.

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 reader. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. This monstrously funny joke book is packed with horrendously hilarious ribticklers and gruesomely giggly cartoons by the fiendishly talented, Shoo Rayner.

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. This is a fantastic anthology of poetry by one of the UK's leading poets.

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. When Spider McDrew goes to the museum, he's supposed to be finding out about the Romans. But he's much more interested in the Ancient Egyptians. Another great story about the lovable Spider McDrew. Pages 30 and 31 show the artefacts that caught Spider's eye, providing an opportunity to recap the story.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

This humorous story follows Harry the spider to Clare's school, where the class is studying minibeasts. Displeased with his box, Harry escapes in the classroom. The fuming teacher is reconciled to Harry when he finds her lost glasses. She admits that Harry is a very clever spider. * In this sequel to Harry The Clever Spider, we find out what happened when Clare took Harry to school. *Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms. * Text type — A story with a familiar setting. * Posters on pages 22 and 23 advertise Harry's services for finding lost items and remind the readers of Harry's talents. * Curriculum links- Science: Living things in the environment. * Ideas for Guided Reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities. * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

«Faster than a speeding boat, and more exciting than a trip on a bobsleigh, this fact-packed non-chronological report looks at the fastest animals and machines in the world. Action-packed illustrations and photographs accompany text explaining what enables each featured animal or machine to be so fast. * Turquoise/ Band 7 books offer literay language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms. * Text type — A non-chronological report. * The table on pages 22 and 23 summarises the features that make each animal and machine a contender in the «Going Fast» category. * Curriculum links — Science: Forces and movement. * This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.»

Those Big Bad Wolf tales! Forget them, this is the true story! Archie Wolf tells how he is drawn into the country`s worse crime wave. Could he track down the villain behind it? And could he escape from the villain`s hit man? This is a guided reading series for ages 4-7. It includes practical teaching notes at the back of each book.

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. Brother Aelred loved singing and looking after the pigs. But it was his secret weapon that stopped the Vikings getting the treasure!

Part of the Collins Big Cat guided reading series for ages 4-7, this anthology of three plays features a prize of 3500 biscuits, a creature on Earth, square tomatoes and underwater torches. It is based on original poems by Michael Rosen.

Long ago, when the world was new, the sun decided to start racing across the sky. But on Earth, everyone was far from happy! The days were so short and there was no time to get anything done! People complained — Someone ought to do something! But no one did! until Maui came along with a plan! This title retells a traditional Maori legend.

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. In 1807 parliament passed a law that finally ended slavery in Britain. One of the most important people in getting this law passed was a brave and brilliant man who died ten years before. His name was Olaudah Equiano and this is his story.

Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-7 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. It's Cal's first day at a new school and he's feeling nervous. Will his sister tell everyone the secret about their dad?

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. When the Game Player of Zob pays a visit to earth and challenges the earthling children to a game, the children soon find out that the alien is a very bad loser — and that isn't good news for them... A funny sci-fic story.

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. Find out all about the Masai tribe in this stunning non-fiction book by top BBC wildlife filmmakers and photographers Jonathan and Angela Scott.

How do you test a rain-soaked young girl to make sure she is a Princess? You hide a pea in her bed, of course! Only a real Princess can feel a pea under twenty plump mattresses. But, this Princess has a mind of her own. Will she endure the test? Will she win the heart of the Prince? This title retells the famous Hans Christian Anderson tale.