When the British public voted for their top ten Britons, they included a writer, musician, campaigner, engineer and politician in the list. What do they all have in common? Find out what it takes to be a Great Briton.

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

* Text type - An information book.

* The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.

* The glossary and index on pages 30 and 31 can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.

* Curriculum links - History

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

This book has been graded for interest at 8-9 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 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Jo Nelson is an editor and writer from the UK. She has written non-fiction titles across avariety of genres including science, history and biography. Richard Wilkinson is a UK based illustrator who has worked for many well-known clientsincluding the New Scientist. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.