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 s available. Join author Joe Haddow and the Royal Museums Greenwich as they explore the history of portraiture – how it started, how it developed and similarities with the modern-day selfie! Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. Pages 54 and 55 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.