Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.


Artists everywhere throughout time have been coming up with new ways of seeing and making sense of their world. Find out how some artists rebelled against old traditions and saw things differently.


Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.


Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

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