Ros Asquith, cartoonist and author of many children books, gives a masterclass on writing and illustrating your own storybook . This is an instructional book with a difference, which takes young readers step by step through the writing process from first ideas to editing to illustrating and finally compiling their very own picture book.

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

* Text type - An instruction text.

* A flow chart on pages 22 and 23 shows the eight stages described in the book, from ideas to enjoying your story with other readers.

* Curriculum links - DT: Making a storybook; ICT: Writing stories; communicating information using text.

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

This book is at Book Band Turquoise. Turquoise books will include an increasing number of adjectives and more descriptive verbs. The number of pictures on each page will decrease, whereas the text amount will increase. High-interest themes such as danger, courage and anger are introduced, and children will be confident with around 450 high frequency words. Pupil Targets: (i) read silently in their head, (ii) read a sentence aloud with the correct expression, (iii) know why certain types of punctuation are used and how it affects the sentence, (iv) fluently read long sentences and paragraphs, (v) decode unusual words by using the sounds they already know, (vi) read both fiction and non-fiction books.

This book has been graded for interest at 6-7 years. 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 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Ros Asquith has worked as a photographer and a theatre critic as well as a cartoonist. 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.