Talking Books are read-along versions of the Collins Big Cat titles. Lively readings, sound effects and music all help to bring the books to life.

They are designed to support reading comprehension and language acquisition for all children, and are ideal for working with less confident readers and children with English as an additional language.

Talking Books are read-along versions of the Collins Big Cat titles. Lively readings, sound effects and music all help to bring the books to life. Talking Books are designed to support reading comprehension and language acquisition for all children, and are ideal for working with less confident readers and children with English as an additional language.

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

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 book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Tasha Pym is the author of Blot and Og's Monster Party, illustrated by Charles Fuge (Gullane's Children's Books) and Harry Fly, Colour Bears and Super Sculptures (Collins Education). Joel Stewart grew up in Sheffield after spending his earliest years in a commune in the wilds somewhere near Barnsley. He obtained a first class Honours degree in illustration from Falmouth College of Arts and was already working on his first picture book, The Adventures of a Nose, before he graduated. He plays the banjo and button accordion and likes to draw while watching films. Other titles illustrated by Joel Stewart include The Magic Paintbrush (Macmillan), Jabberwocky (Walker Books), Tales of Hans Christian Andersen (Walker Books) and Me and My Mammoth (Macmillan).