From the pyramids in Egypt to the Sydney Opera House, landmarks have been built all over the world. Find out what makes them so special.

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

* Text type - An information book.

* A map of the world on pages 22 and 23 shows the location of all the landmarks.

* Curriculum links - Geography: `the location and characteristics of a range of the world's most significant human and physical features'.

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

. 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 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Helen Chapman is an Australian author of eighty books who has been published in the United Kingdom, the USA, New Zealand and Australia. She has travelled extensively and lived In America and England and is currently living in Australia.