Icarus and his father have been imprisoned in a maze. They dream of escape, but all they have are some sticks, feathers and wax ...

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

* Text type - An retelling of a myth.

* Recap the key events in a reader response spread on pages 22-23.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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. Simon Cheshire has written lots of fiction books for children of all ages across many genres, including titles in the Black Cats series for A&C Black and the Saxby Smart detective series for Picadilly.