What's it really like to go on safari? What do you take? What will you find? Go on a journey with Jonathan and Angela Scott to the famous game parks of Kenya, and discover the excitement, the wonder and the dangers of travelling into the wild.

* Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

* Text type: A non-chronological report.

* The diary entry of a day on safari on pages 46-47 provides a fascinating example for children of being on safari.

* Additional information retrieval devices such as a glossary and index can be evaluated for their usefulness as children develop critical reading skills.

* Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Art and Design: Journeys; Citizenship: Animals and us.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Emerald Series .

. 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 2009 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Jonathan and Angie Scott are award-winning wildlife photographers based in Kenya. They have travelled to the furthest corners of the globe in search of material for their work and have produced more than twenty books. They are particularly proud to be authors of titles in the Collins Big Cat series, as education and conservation are particularly close to their hearts. 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. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Jonathan and Angie Scott are award-winning wildlife photographers based in Kenya. They have travelled to the furthest corners of the globe in search of material for their work and have produced more than twenty books. Jonathan is best known as a Presenter with the BBC Natural History Unit particularly for Big Cat Diary the hugely popular wildlife soap opera that first hit our screens twelve years ago. In 2009 they were honoured as Canon Ambassadors in recognition of their outstanding photography. They are particularly proud to be authors of a number of titles in the Collins Big Cat series, as education and conservation are particularly close to their hearts. www. jonathanangelascott. com