Gold Rush - Big Cat Read On

While mining for gold in the Wild West, Pa is injured in an accident, leaving young Lily to race home for help. Her journey through the treacherous landscape is filled with escalating challenges, all while being chased by the notorious Cactus Kid and his gang. About the Author and Book Talk questions invite the reader to think more deeply about the themes in the book and reflect on their reading experience. Online lesson plans provide guidance in using this book in a range of settings, including independent, social and whole-class reading - all designed to support the reader to connect with the book and encourage a positive attitude to reading.

About the author

Tom Mitchell is mostly a dad, partly a teacher and sometimes a writer. He grew up in the West Country and settled in London after a brief interlude in the East Midlands. He lives in Kent with his wife, Nicky, and sons, Dylan and Jacob. He has written six middle-grade novels for HarperCollins Children's Books, with the latest being FIRST KID IN SPACE

Born in Hastings and now a seasoned Londoner Steve has been a life-long doodler, studying fine art and film making in Nottingham and Animation at the Royal College of Art.

Steve has honed his scratchy, spontaneous anarchic illustration style to make him the perfect partner for some of today’s leading childrens authors. His energetic black and white line and anarchist tendencies made him a great match for Puffin's best-selling Dennis the Menace fiction series and with his surreal sense of humour he was a natural pairing for Harry Hill's Matt Mills series and Francesca Simon’s Terrible Viking books published by Faber and Faber.

Steve has been happily immersed in a world of terrible vikings, living beards, Super Nans, talking dogs, farting horses & a graphic novel about talking poo as part of his varied work with authors like Phil Earle, Guy Bass, Gareth P Jones & James Turner.

Product details

• Authors: Tom Mitchell, Mitchell Tom
• Assisted by: Steve May (Illustration)
• Publisher: Collins Reference
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 9 to 11
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.04.2025
• EAN: 9780008744823
• ISBN: 978-0-00-874482-3
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 10 mm
• Series: Collins Big Cat; Big Cat Read On
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; JUVENILE FICTION / Action & Adventure / General, JUVENILE FICTION / School & Education, English, JUVENILE FICTION / Historical / United States / 19th Century, Interest age: from c 9 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, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / Reading & Phonics, EDUCATION / Schools / Levels / Elementary