The start of a New Year is celebrated in different ways all over the world. Find out how inside!

* Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.

* Text type - An information book.

* A map of new year celebrations can be found on pages 22-23 to encourage children to discuss the information.

* Curriculum links - Geography: `Pupils should be taught to ... understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom, a region in a European country, and a region within North or South America'.

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Helen Chapman is an Australian author of eighty books who has been published in the United Kingdom, the USA, New Zealand and Australia. She has travelled extensively and lived In America and England and is currently living in Australia.