The Amazing Adventures of Batbird: Band 11/Lime
No. of pages 32
Published: 2005
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Dunkan Dabble won't answer to his name as he believes he's Batbird, a superhero that he and his friends watch on TV. Dunkan's family and friends find him very difficult to live with as Batbird. He plays too roughly and insists on sleeping upside down. But Dunkan becomes a hero overnight by unwttingly saving his family from a prowling fox.
* Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
* Text type - A humorous fantasy story.
* A timeline on pages 30 and 31 summarises the story in nine sequential steps providing an ideal cue for further discussion.
* Curriculum links - Citizenship: Choices, Taking part.
* This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .
This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2005 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Jane Clarke is the talented author of over 80 books for young children, including young fiction series such as Dr. Kitty Cat, Pet Hotel and Dinosaur Cove. Steve Smallman has taken up writing his own stories after illustrating children's books for over 30 years. He also teaches illustration and mural-painting workshops in schools. When he's not working, Steve enjoys films, television, gardening and walking in the countryside. Nick Schon was born in London and now lives in Luton with his wife, three children and five lazy cats. He has worked as an art director at an advertising agency and now illustrates full time. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books.
This book is in the following series:
Collins Big Cat
The Collins Big Cat series is a fully structured reading scheme with both fiction and non fiction titles. The series was designed to build speaking and listening as well as reading skills. Every book contains a unique reader response activity plus reading tips including suggested comprehension activities and curriculum links.
