Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.
Pages 46 and 47 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.
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 ebooks available.
Collins Big Cat is a whole-school reading programme that provides complete support for primary reading. Children will become fluent readers through hundreds of high-quality fiction and non-fiction banded books by award-winning authors and illustrators. In-depth teaching resources support you in developing and assessing key reading skills at all stages from early reading through to phonics, to guided, whole-class and independent reading for more confident readers.
Author
Cindy Baldwin, Illustrated by Irma Ruggiero, Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat
The Dragon in the Sewer was inspired by Cindy’s daughter, who loves dragons and wears knee braces to support unstable joints, as well as Cindy’s own experience with lung disease. Long frustrated by the way stories often portray kids with breathing problems as weak or anxious, Cindy wanted to show that children with disabilities can be proactive and have adventures, too!Irma Ruggiero: “When they asked me to illustrate Dragon in the Sewer, from the first few words I realized it would be a wonderful adventure!As a child I also suffered, and still do, from Asthma. I had to juggle doctors and inhalers, sometimes feeling embarrassed with my friends, with the fear of looking strange, weak or not being able to breathe!I wished to bring a little of me into the fantastic story by Cindy Baldwin,empathizing with the characters, who are all so cute and a bit funny.
