Collins Big Cat - Swords and Bikes: Band 16/Sapphire

by Joseph Coelho, Jobe Anderson (Illustrator)

Overview

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. Join Michaela as she finds herself propelled into an alternate universe and on a race against time to save her friend Norris. This exciting adventure story in verse was written by Children’s Laureate (2022-2024) and multi-award-winning poet Joseph Coelho. 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 for exploring poetry, and stimulating activities. Text type: A story in verse For readers aged 7-11 years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780008701802
Publisher:	HarperCollins UK
Publication date:	01/01/2025
Pages:	56
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Joseph Coelho is a performance poet, children's author and playwright. His debut poetry collection Werewolf Club Rules won the CLPE CliPPA Poetry Award 2015 and he was included on The Guardian's 2018 list 'Fresh Voices: 50 authors you should read now.' ,