The Collins Big Cat - Band 17/Diamond

Build your child's reading confidence at home with books at the right level1,100 years ago Baghdad was the world's biggest and finest city. Discover this glamorous, glorious desert city - its art, literature and learning - during the Islamic Golden Age.

• Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
• Text type - An information book.
• The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information.
• The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further.
• Curriculum links - History

About the author

Richard Platt is the award-winning author of over 90 titles, fiction and non-fiction. He is an amateur expert on the sea, and especially on smuggling and piracy. He is also fascinated by social history and by the history of science and technology. Richard lives in rural Kent with his wife, a black cat and five chickens.

Summary

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level 1,100 years ago Baghdad was the world’s biggest and finest city. Discover this glamorous, glorious desert city – its art, literature and learning – during the Islamic Golden Age.

Product details

• Authors: Richard Platt
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 10 to 11
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.2017
• EAN: 9780008208950
• ISBN: 978-0-00-820895-0
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Collins Big Cat; Collins Big Cat
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; English, JUVENILE NONFICTION / History / General, JUVENILE NONFICTION / School & Education, JUVENILE NONFICTION / People & Places / Middle East, Children’s / Teenage reference material, Interest age: from c 10 years, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales), For primary education, Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes, Children’s / Teenage general interest: Information resources, Children’s / Teenage general interest: History and the past, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary