'Collins Big Cat' is a guided reading series for ages 4-7, featuring both fiction and non-fiction titles which encourage children to develop their reading skills.

Tiger Dead! Tiger Dead! Stories from the Caribbean: Band 13/Topaz (Collins Big Cat)

Children's Books

KITAMURA, SATOSHI

Nichols, Grace

Agard, John

Animals

Collins Educational

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

Twinkle, Twinkle, Firefly: Band 08/Purple (Collins Big Cat)

Literature & Fiction

I Din Do Nuttin

RANDOM HOUSE UK

This is a humorous and facetious look at the human condition through poetry written as though by animals.

We Animals Would Like a Word with You

Transworld Publishers

Laughter is an egg with a crick-crack face that can hide in the heart of the human race. Tummy tickling, rib-cracking and even wee-yourself laughs can all be found in the pages of this eggstraordinary collection of poems, riddles, jokes and ballads from the wonderful John Agard.

Laughter Is An Egg

Puffin

A fish who longs to fly and a bird who longs to swim trade fins and wings for a new look at life.

Lend Me Your Wings

Kennaway, Adrienne

Little,Brown & Co

This anthology, featuring poems from five contemporary poets, aims to make the reader giggle!

Another Day on Your Foot and I Would Have Died

Pan Books, Ltd.

Hodder & Stoughton General Division

Half-Caste is a mixture of old and new poems that address core issues and experiences for young people. Race and cultural identity is a primary theme and shapes the book. There are poems about violence, the environment, relationships, politics, and grief, alongside poems full of fun, looking at everyday events from quirky, unexpected points of view. It's an accessible and inspiring book by a poet who knows and respects his audience.

Half-Caste: And Other Poems (Poetry Powerhouse)

Hodder&Stoughton

Half-caste and Other Poems, Level 4 (Hodder Reading Project)

Education & Reference

Hodder Murray

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