About Big Cat
Collins Big Cat is the award-winning reading series for KS1-P1-4 (ages 4-7) . Featuring top children’s authors and illustrators such as Julia Donaldson, Nick Butterworth and Michael Morpurgo, Collins Big Cat provides exciting, engaging books that your pupils will love to read. Practical teaching notes are included at the back of each book.

The series consists of 140 book-banded fiction and non-fiction readers, a Teacher’s Guide for each year, interactive CD-ROMs and Big Books for Reception and Year 1.

Key Features and Benefits of Collins Big Cat:
- Top children’s authors writing exciting stories will ensure that your class loves reading
- Every book features motivating illustrations and photographs that encourage speaking and listening skills
- Comprehensive notes in the back of each reader make classroom management easy
- Book-banding allows easy integration with existing resources
- Includes interactive ICT resources to add an extra dimension to your literacy lesson

for more information, please visit: http://www.collinsbigcat.com

Bendemolena the kitten lives in a noisy house, so she puts a shiny pot on her head and everything goes quiet. Hooray! But what happens when Mother Cat gives her messages to take back to her brothers and sisters…? This play is based on an American folktale.

This play includes a funny old man plus a pizza-eating boy who knows a lot about llamas, chimpanzees, giraffes, kangaroos and dinosaurs. A rhyming playscript that's lots of fun to read or perform.

A prize of 3500 biscuits, the most terrifying creature on Earth, square tomatoes and underwater torches are just some of the amazing things that crop up in this anthology of three wonderfully weird plays, based on original poems by Michael Rosen.

'It's time to tug up that gigantic turnip' says the old man who planted it, but how will him and the old lady pull up such an enormous vegetable! Find out in this play based on a traditional Russian folktale.

A strange sound came from the darkness outside and the old woman wished she had never gone into the nearby forest. This is an imaginative radio play based on a traditional American tale, with lots of opportunities for spooky sound effects.

Long, long ago, when the world was new and strange, the sun decided to start racing across the sky. But on Earth, everyone was far from happy! The days were so short and there was no time to get anything done! People moaned. People grumbled. People complained. 'Someone ought to do something!' But no one did…until Maui came along with a plan! Find out how Maui tamed the sun in this charming retelling of a traditional Maori legend.

How do you test a rain-soaked young girl to make sure she is a Princess? You hide a pea in her bed, of course! Only a real Princess can feel a pea under twenty plump mattresses. But this Princess has a mind of her own. Will she endure the test and end up black and blue? Will she win the heart of the Prince? Find out in this delightful retelling of the famous Hans Christian Anderson tale.