Traversing across the world by train, boat and plane, the two children in this story poem encounter the extremes of sun and snow travelling to Africa, India and China. The book begins with a poem, before revealing their journey's details, and repetitive questions encourage the reader to turn the page and continue the voyage.

* Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.

* Text type - A poem with predictable structure and patterned language.

* The story map on pages 14 and 15 gives children the opportunity to follow the route again on a world map.

* Curriculum links - Geography: Where in the world is Barnaby bear? Passport to the world. Music: Feel the pulse.

* This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

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

This book has been graded for interest at 4-7 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 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

James Carter lives in Oxfordshire with his wife and two daughters. His poems have been published in dozens of anthologies and in his first collection Stars, Cars and Electric Guitars. He spends a lot of his time visiting schools where he perform his poems and plays his guitar. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. 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.