An Collins Big Cat - Band 16/Sapphire

Orcas are incredible creatures of the ocean that stay in their family group their entire lives. Discover their life cycle in this book, from birth to death and everything in-between - swimming, playing, hunting and surviving. The glossary and index can be used to develop children''s information retrieval skills further. Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children''s sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Ideas for guided reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

About the author

Narinder Dhami was born in Wolverhampton. Having read English at Birmingham University, she spent the next nine years teaching in schools in the East End of London before leaving teaching to write full-time. Her first children's book A Medal for Malina was published in 1990, and since then Narinder has written hundreds of stories for different age groups.

Narinder lives in Shropshire with her husband Robert and their five cats.

Product details

• Authors: Narinder Dhami, Dhami Narinder
• Assisted by: Tiziana Longo (Illustration)
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 10
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.07.2022
• EAN: 9780008478858
• ISBN: 978-0-00-847885-8
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 6 mm
• Series: Collins Big Cat
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Story books, fairytales, sagas, rhymes, songs; Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, English, JUVENILE FICTION / Girls & Women, JUVENILE FICTION / Sports & Recreation / Football, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2, For National Curriculum Key Stage 2 (England and Wales), For primary education, Educational: English language: readers & reading schemes, Sporting stories (Children's / Teenage), Children’s / Teenage fiction: Sporting stories, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary