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 Pacific wre formed, how villagers live, and about the kinds of animals and plants that grow there.

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 Pacific wre formed, how villagers live, and about the kinds of animals and plants that grow there.

With its account of towns, villages, food and activities, this book will inform and fascinate developing readers. A final double page spread provides a glossary of unusual terms and a map to show where Vanuatu is located.

Purple level (Band 8) books offer developing readers structured language with some challenging vocabulary.

Ideas for Guided 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 is aimed at children in primary school. This book is at Book Band Purple. Purple books will start to have more longer sentences and a wider range of challenging vocabulary. A lot of Purple books will start to have shorter chapters to encourage a child's reading ability. Children will have encountered more of the high frequency words by this level, and teachers will be promoting reading for pleasure. Pupil Targets: (i) read silently in their head for longer periods of time, (ii) read longer books with short chapters, (iii) read fiction, non-fiction and poetry, (iv) sound out most unfamiliar words as they read, (v) use a dictionary to find the meaning of a word, (vi) explain why they think a book is good or not. 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 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Andy Belcher is an international freelance photographer based in New Zealand. A specialist in adventure travel and underwater action. Angie Belcher's stories feature many of the dare-devil activities she has enjoyed, including white-water rafting, bungy jumping, scuba diving and caving. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books.