An atmospheric collection of new poems about the sea and earth by poet Judith Nicholls, beautifully illustrated by Judy Musselle.

* Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

* Text type: A poetry book

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Collins Big Cat Poetry, Emerald Series .

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 scheme has multiple levels. 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 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Judith Nicholls is one of England's best-known children's poets. She has written over fifty poetry collections and her work is regularly broadcast on BBC Radio for Schools. Judith has three children and six grandchildren and makes her home in Wiltshire. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.