Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.
Join author Joe Haddow and the Royal Museums Greenwich as they explore the history of portraiture – how it started, how it developed and similarities with the modern-day selfie!
Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.
Pages 54 and 55 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
BOOK OF THE WEEK - Young readers will love this story of magic and friendship.
Can you solve the puzzles to save the Kingdom? Put your puzzle skills to the test with mazes, word games and codes to crack!
Young readers will love this gorgeous picture book about a chilled capybara who just won't be rushed.
This is Book 1110 in the Collins Big Cat Series. See all Collins Big Cat books here.
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Joe Haddow is a drummer, radio producer, podcast presenter, art collector and a passionate music fan. He began rifling through his Dad's record collection aged 7, and started learning the drums at the age of 9. Joe runs the BBC Radio 2 Book Club, hosts his own podcast - Book Off - and has written several articles about different genres of music. He is a pass
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