Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-7 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book.

* Blue/ Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.

* Text type - A fantasy story.

* The storyboard on pages 14 and 15 allows children to retell the story in their own words.

* Curriculum links - Science: sorting and using materials.

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

This book has been graded for interest at 5-6 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 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Julian Mosedale is an Illustrator and sometime teacher working in North London. His cartoons and illustrations have appeared everywhere from jazzing up serious grown up stuff in newspapers like The Independent and The Observer to huge wallpaper murals in children's hospitals and schools. He is particularly pleased with his children's story books and activity books. He has produced a number of these for Buster Books, including The London Colouring Book, The Colouring Book, Messy Monsters and The Rio Activity Book. All of which are guaranteed to provide hours of inventive doodling, intricate colouring and amazing masterpieces for all who pick up a pen and venture inside their covers. Sean Taylor is also the author of Boing! published by Walker books and enjoys writing poetry. He spends his time between London and Brasil. 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.