This is one of a new series of books, "Read and Discover", designed to encourage children to learn about the world as they learn to read. Everywhere you look, there are walls. Straight and round walls, high and low walls, hot and cold walls...But how are they built? What are they for? And when you come down to it - what is a wall, after all? This title supports KS1 - 2 Science and Literacy, in consultation with the Centre for Literacy in Primary Education. It is suitable for non-fiction for developing readers. It features texts and illustrations which support children learning to read. It offers extra information section at the back of the book with index, author and illustrator biography.

 

This book is part of a book series called Read And Discover .

This book is suitable for Key Stage 1. KS1 covers school years 1 and 2, and ages 5-7 years. A key stage is any of the fixed stages into which the national curriculum is divided, each having its own prescribed course of study. At the end of each stage, pupils are required to complete standard assessment tasks.

There are 40 pages in this book. This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+). This book was published 2010 by Walker Books Ltd .

Judy Allen is a children's author who writes a variety of fiction and non-fiction books. To date she has had well over 50 books published and one of the novels, Awaiting Developments, won the Whitbread Children's Novel Award, the Friends of the Earth Award and was commended for the Carnegie Medal. She lives in South London and belongs to CWISL - Children's Writers and Illustrators in South London. Alan Baron is an author and illustrator. His works include, Little Pig's Bouncy Ball, The Magic Globe: An Around the World Adventure, and Red Fox and the Baby Bunnies. Judy Allen is an award-winning author who has written successfully for both children and adults. Her novels for young people include "Something Rare and Special", "Travelling Hopefully" and "Awaiting Developments". Judy lives in London.