Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step.

Level 11 books provide more literary language, more complex sentence structures and less support from illustrations. Characters are more varied, with action sustained over several pages. Non-fiction titles include glossaries where necessary. Sentences are still short for better understanding. However, grammatical vowel endings are more evident to encourage fluent reading and to provide familiarity with some higher-level features of written Arabic.

Turtle wanted to go to the party in the clouds, but how would she get there without wings?

She had an idea, but, unfortunately, things didn't go quite according to plan.

This delightful traditional tale from Brazil explains why a turtle's shell looks like a patchwork of different pieces.

A story map on pages 22-23 allows children to look back at Turtle's changing emotions along her journey.

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

This book is aimed at children in primary school.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Beverley was born in London, grew up in Kenya and came to Britain for the first time to take A levels. She graduated from Cambridge with a degree in Economics and Sociology. After travelling in Africa, America, Europe and the Middle East, Beverley joined Penguin as an editor. Since then she has continued to work in publishing - at present she combines writing and working as an editor here at Hodder. She has two daughters and is married to photographer Nick Birch. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.