Bert lives deep in the rainforest and is completely awestruck by the beauty of other bright and wonderful creatures. If only he could sparkle like that? Or can he? This wonderful, decodable story is w
Discover what the nose does and how it helps you to breathe, smell, keep out dirt and get better when you are ill. ‧ Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integr
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,
These wonderful atmospheric folktales from the Ukraine and China capture two different cultures, united in the presence of a dragon, who has the power to change all of their lives forever. Told here,
Find out about the lives of these two queens, joined together by their family bond, but with hugely different beliefs. Discover what early life was like for Princesses Mary and Elizabeth under the tur
A gripping and moving retelling of this poem written originally in the eighteenth century by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It tells the story of the Ancient Mariner and his adventures at sea, where tragedy
A fascinating insight into the history of one of our ancient civilisations – the Shang dynasty, their society, culture, belief system and way of life in China over 500 years ago. Who were they, how di
Discover these two creepy, ghostly stories originally written by Charles Dickens, retold here by Penny Dolan. In ‘The Signalman’ messages warn of horrors to come, but will they be understood before it
Travel back in time 2,000 years to when the Iron Age Celtic tribes migrated to Britain. Find out what Britain was like before their arrival, how they set up their communities and what life was like fo
• Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. • Children can re-cap key events in the story
• Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. • Text type: A simple story with a familiar se
• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. • Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • Children can re-tell the story usin
• Read B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion • Text type: A story with predictable structur
• Lilac/Band 0 books are wordless that tell a story through pictures and are designed to develop understanding about how stories work. • Text type: A wordless traditional story • Children can follow L
• Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. • Text type: A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • A circ
• Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. • Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • Pages 14 and 15 fe
• Lilac/Band 0 - wordless book that gives information through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how information books work. • Text type - Information book • The photographs of th
• Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. • Text type - A story with a predictable structure and patterned language. • A s
• Red B/Band 2B books offer simple but varied text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development and a satisfying conclusion. • Text type - A patterned story with predictab
• Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. • Text type - A story with a predictable structure and patterned language. • Pages 14 and 15
• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. • Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language • A final story map spread shows all
• Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations. • Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • Children can follow the dog’s jour
• Red A/Band 2A books offer predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. • Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • Tec’s
• Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. • Text type - A patterned story with predictable structure • The body parts are repeated in a
• Pink B level (Band 1B) books offer simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. • Text type - A story with predictable structure and patterned language. • An illustration on pages 14
• Pink B/ Band 1B books offer emergent readers simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions. • Text type - A patterned story with predictable structure. • The storymap on pages 14 and 15
In this non-fiction recount of a family trip to the dump, simple text combined with Ley Honor Roberts lively and inimitable cartoon-photo collage style brings environmental issues to life. The family'
A bright, action-packed non-fiction book that explains how to dance. The step-by-step instructions include sequential words at the start of each sentence: First, Next, Then, Now and Stop. Photographs
This book recounts the experiences of two children as they take a look inside the giant Biomes and discover the exciting plants and exotic foods that grow in difficult environments.
Hooray! Hooray! It's the horses' holiday! They come by coach, they come by car, They come from far away. This humorous rhyming story takes the reader on a riotous journey to Dobbin World, where the ho
An informative picture book that presents a larger-than-life look at the fly and explains that flies can be very useful - despite their capacity to carry germs and cause disease! The humorous cartoons
This colourful and informative book is presented as a 'scrapbook' of mementoes from Amy's visit to the Pacific island of Vanuatu. Packed with photos, it gives information on how the islands of the Pac
It was Pirate Captain Codspawn's birthday. But what was his birthday surprise? It wasn't the beetles in the butter. It wasn't the spiders in the sugar. And it wasn't the special pirate pie that Cook h
Can you imagine a world with whales that could walk and giant earth moles? They both lived on Earth long ago and their relatives still live here today. Explore the terrifying, giant, strange ancestors
This report with its dramatic photography helps us understand what brown bears look like and the savage, unspoilt, grandeur of their habitat. It persuades us that these animals are to be respected and
Who's in your family? Use this family tree to learn all about one family, how many brothers and sisters there are and what the grandparents look like, and discover how families are connected. Beautifu
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 conjun
This hilarious set of poems by award-winning and much-loved poet Roger McGough explores the weird and the wonderful. Filled with brand new poems and accompanied by wonderful illustrations from Natalie
Where do peas come from? How do they grow and how do they get from the field to our dinner plates? All these questions and more are answered in this informative and photographic journey of the pea.
At the beginning of World War II, a young American woman named Virginia Hall was sent undercover to Nazi-occupied France to spy on the German army. Follow her incredible true story as she bravely aids
