• Features such as contents pages, glossaries and indexes build early non-fiction skills.
• Helpful quick-reference to NLS text type and subject links on the back of each book.
• Reception books referenced to the Early Years Foundation Stage guidance.

This book is part of a book series called Four Corners .

This book is at the foundation stage (early years) of the key stage system. The Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) covers children from birth to age 5 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks. This book is aimed at children in primary school.

This book was published 2009 by Pearson Education Limited .

Writer Edel Wignell lives with her husband Geoff in the foothills of the Dandenong Ranges east of Melbourne, Australia. Edel taught in city and country primary schools in Victoria and in England for eight years. While she was teaching, she was invited to write a column for a monthly education magazine, which lead to publication of over ninety books, magazine articles, stories, verse and scripts (print and digital). Claire Llewellyn lives in Hertford and is an established non-fiction author for children. Michael Wagner is a children's author, speaker and storyteller. He writes for early childhood and for older children and he is the author of the Maxx Rumble series, the Undys series and the Ted series. He also runs the publishing venture, Billy Goat Books. Tom Jellett is an Australian illustrator based in Sydney. Tom has been an editorial illustrator for News Limited, working on The Australian, The Weekend Australian and The Daily Telegraph and his work has appeared in the South China Morning Post, The Week and Medical Observer.