As we grow up, our bodies grow and change with us. This information book by Teresa Heapy looks at the changes that happen - from our eyes and teeth to our height and strength.

* Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.

* Children can chart the changes our bodies go through from baby to six years old in the timeline on pages 14-15.

* Text type: An information book

* Curriculum links: Science: Moving and growing

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

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 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Teresa Heapy writes stories and non-fiction books for children. She also writes and material to support teachers and parents, and gets lots of ideas from her three young children! Revd Alan M. Barker is a busy Methodist minister who has worked in Lincolnshire for the past 27 years. His writing is informed by regular visits to local primary schools to lead collective worship. He aims to create assemblies that reflect upon life and faith in ways that are inclusive, engaging and enjoyable.