With fantastic images and simple text, books in this series serve as a perfect introduction to different habitats and show how a wide variety of animals and plants are beautifully adapted to live there.
Did you know that an adult has 639 muscles in their body. Or that your lungs breathe in and out 22,000 times a day? With fascinating facts and illustrations, diagrams to label and carefully levelled text, children learn all about their body and how it works.
True-life experiences of four ordinary Tudor children are presented as historical biographies in this book. Through hours of research, Sallie Purkis has uncovered these original histories and retells them for the first time with historical photographs and large colour illustrations.
Photos and illustrations combine to give a detailed picture of the fascinating life that goes on underground. We meet animals who live underground, see trains that travel underground and follow pipes, wires and cables from houses deep into the ground.
Blue/ Band 4 non-fiction books use children’s language patterns to give information which is supported by the illustrations and design.
Text types – A non-chronological report.
The cross-sectioned diagram on pages 14 and 15 allows children to recap and discuss the text.
Curriculum links – Geography: the local area; Science: light and dark.
This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
The festive standalone from James and Bob, the stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob. Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway as James and Bob himself.
STREET CAT BOB and James, stars of the bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob that touched millions of hearts around the world, return in a festive standalone special as they spend a cold and challenging December on the streets of London together in a new adventure.
From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation, they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives and, through the bestselling books A Street Cat Named Bob and The World According to Bob, touched millions around the world.
In this new story of their journey together, James looks back at the last Christmas they spent scraping a living on the streets and how Bob helped him through one of his toughest times - providing strength, friendship and inspiration but also teaching him important lessons about the true meaning of Christmas along the way.
Now a major motion picture starring Luke Treadaway as James and Bob himself, coming November 6.
The world's myths are filled with characters, creatures, and stories that have fascinated people for thousands of years. This book explores the gods, goddesses, heroes, villains, tricksters, and quests that make myths and legends so compelling.
A West African tale that explains how people of all colours were created, illustrated with naive-style paintings. Other books by the author include ""Earth Story"" and ""Life Story"". Other books illustrated by France Lessac include ""My Little Island"", ""Dragon of Redonda"" and ""Caribbean ABC"".
This series uses cartoon-style illustrations and humorous narrative text to make key topics in Science and Geography accessible and engaging. This approach encourages children to read about and understand complex ideas. This is the story of how a special sort of stone formed deep inside the Earth, and came to the surface thousands of millions of years later. The Rock Factory looks at how minerals turn into rock crystals, how the Earth is structured and how volcanoes happen. This book also contains an experiment, useful websites and an index. Reviews for previous titles in the Science Works series: 'Making science accessible and fun for younger readers is no easy task, but the author/illustrator partnership of Bailey and Lilly makes a brilliant job of it...Bright appealing cartoon-style artwork and a continuous narrative text treat each topic in the form of a story...HIghly recommended' Books for Keeps, 5 star review 'Using a clear and engaging narrative format with well-conceived and lavishly produced illustrations, the Science Works series interweaves science knowledge into a story with humour and interest' Times Educational Supplement
