Description
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.
A wonderful anthology of poetry by award winning poets John Agard and Grace Nichols, brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura.
• Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.
• Text type: A poetry book.
• An illustration on pages 22 and 23 encourages children to recap the poems they have read in the anthology.
• Curriculum links: Art and Design: Portraying relationships; Music: Play it again – exploring rhythmic patterns; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world
