A beautifully illustrated anthology of Wendy Cope's poems, this collection includes well-loved classics such as "Summer Toes" and "Into the Bathtub" as well of lots of brand new, fabulous poems, which take us on a wonderful journey full of little adventures that will resonate with children everywhere.

* Turquoise/Band 7 books offer literary language and extended descriptions, with longer sentences and a wide range of unfamiliar terms.

* Text type: A poetry book.

* A map on pages 22 and 23 encourages children to trace the journey the anthology takes, recounting the poems as they go.

* Curriculum links: Citizenship: Taking part - developing skills of communication and participation; Art and Design: Portraying relationships; Music: Play it again - exploring rhythmic patterns

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

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 scheme has multiple levels. 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 2010 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Charlotte Middleton studied at the Cambridge School of Art. She illustrated Monster Pet! by Angela McAllister. Charlotte lives with her partner and their cat in the Gloucestershire countryside in England. Wendy Cope is best known for her award-winning contemporary poetry for adults, but has also written extensively for children.