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.

Nothing mysterious happens in Puggle ... that is until Dev finds a pebble - a pebble with a painting and the word "HELP" on it. Intrigue builds as more and more pebbles appear around the village. Who keeps sending them? And why? Join Dev and his friends as they seek to solve the Pebble Puzzle in this humorous mystery story by Ali Sparkes.

White Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to pratise inference, prediction and reading stamina.

Pages 46 and 47 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.

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

This book has been graded for interest at 6-7 years. 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 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2019 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Stuart Atkinson (Contributor) Stuart Atkinson is an amateur astronomer and Outreach Educator. He has written many books on astronomy and space and been the editor/consultant on many more. His "Cumbrian Sky" astronomy blog has had over one million hits. Chelen Ecija (Illustrator) Chelen is an illustrator and a lettering artist based in Madrid, Spain. Painting and lettering are her passions and playing with letterpress type is her hobby. Chelen enjoys being part of the board of APIM, the Association of Professional Illustrators of Madrid and being a member of Familia Plomez, a renowned typography and letterpress group in Spain. She has worked for numerous publishers including Penguin Random House, Scholastic or Hachette. Lauren Farnsworth (Illustrator) Lauren Farnsworth lives in London and has worked in publishing for over 10 years, after graduating from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Gareth Moore (Contributor) Dr Gareth Moore (B. Sc (Hons) M. Phil Ph. D) is the internationally best-selling author of a wide range of brain-training and puzzle books for both children and adults. His books have sold over a million copies in the UK alone, and have been published in 29 different languages. He is also the creator of online brain training site BrainedUp. com, and runs daily puzzle site PuzzleMix. com. Sarah Wade (Illustrator) Sarah Wade is a freelance designer and illustrator based in East Anglia. Sarah's work has been commissioned widely for a variety of products including children's books. With more than 50 children's titles in publication, including picture, novelty and sticker books, Sarah's illustrations are enjoyed by children around the world. Publishers include Macmillan, Usborne and The BBC. John Woodcock (Illustrator) John Woodcock is a freelance illustrator with more than 20 years working experience. With a BA Hons degree in Graphic Design from Norwich School of Art, John is the illustrator of Buster's highly successful Colour Quest series. Ali Sparkes has her own show on Radio Southampton. The Shapeshifter: Finding the Fox, published May 06, is the first book in this series. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.