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.
Lime/Band 11 books have longer sentence structures and a greater use of literary language.
Jack loves to play football, and really wants to get involved in the game at the park. Maybe if there was a video online of Jacks football tricks, then other kids would let him play, just like everyone else
Pages 30 and 31 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
As a young man, before he became an author, James Catchpole had a couple of careers where it actively helped to have one leg. One was busking and hitch-hiking around France with a guitar. The other was playing amputee football on crutches, which he briefly did for England. He is now finding that having one leg is helpful as an author, too provided you write books about characters with one leg.
Jennifer Latham Robinson is a versatile artist who has a passion for storytelling through her drawings. Jennifer's commitment to inclusivity shines through as she often represents people with physical challenges, such as limb differences, in her art.
Jennifer was thrilled at the opportunity to work on Going Viral with author James Catchpole. She was particularly intrigued by the fact that the books main character, the books author, and Jennifer, all have one leg.
