In the 15th century, Christopher Columbus found new lands on the other side of the world. Four hundred years later, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon. Both men were great explorers. Discover their stories here.

* Gold/Band 9 fiction books offer developing readers literary language and stories with distinctive characters.

* Text type - A dual biography.

* History: `the lives of significant individuals in the past who have contributed to national and international achievements. Some should be used to compare aspects of life in different periods [for example, ... Christopher Columbus and Neil Armstrong].

* Place the two lives in context with a visual timeline on pages 22-23.

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

This book is aimed at children in primary school. 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 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Charlotte Guillain is a published author of children's books. Some of her credits include Saving Water, Saving Energy, Reusing and Recycling and Caring for Nature in the Help the Environment series.