Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4--7 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book. Collins Big Cat Big Book of Rhymes A contains a wealth of chants, action rhymes, nursery rhymes (old and new!) and poems especially selected for Collins Big Cat by much loved children's poet, John Foster. Poems link to themes from the guided reading books in Bands Lilac/0 - to Red/2. It's designed to be read with the whole class, modelling good reading strategies and good practice - as well as developing children's awareness of rhythm and rhyme, so important in early literacy. Collins Big Cat CD-ROM A Active Book includes well-known nursery rhymes and characters from them.
