Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top childrens authors & illustrators have created fiction & non-fiction books that your children will love to read banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. * Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text & characters with action sustained over several pages. * Text type
- An information text. * A wordless flow-chart on pages 22 & 23 summarises the process & helps children remember the sequence of events. * Curriculum links
- Design & Technology: Investigating & using materials different joining techniques; Science: Structures; RE: Celebrations. * This book is paired with a story on a similar theme: Arthurs Fantastic Party by Joseph Theobald.

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This is the newest title in the brilliant & bestselling New Scientist" series. Science tells us grand things about the universe: how fast light travels & why stones fall to earth. But scientific endeavor goes far beyond these obvious foundations. There are some fields we dont often hear about because they are so specialized or turn out to be dead ends. Yet researchers have given hallucinogenic drugs to blind people (seriously) tried to weigh the soul as it departs the body & planned to blast a new Panama Canal with atomic weapons. Real scientific breakthroughs sometimes come out of the most surprising & unpromising work. " Off the Leash" is about the margins of science
- not the research down tried-&-tested routes but some of its zanier & more brilliant by-ways. Investigating everything from what its like to die to exploding trousers & recycled urine this book is a reminder that science is intensely creative & often very amusing
- & when let off the leash scientists can fire the imagination like nobody else."

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HOW TO MAKE A UNIVERSE FROM 92 INGREDIENTS takes on the impossible & triumphs
- it makes chemistry fun! A unique & imaginative
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How to Make & Use Compost features an A-Z guide which

Includes:: a comprehensive list of what you can &

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Move over cupid
- here is the love potion weve all been waiting for...! Containing 85 proven techniques this fascinating guide
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This book will show you how to use honey apples pears & garden fruits to make alcoholic & non-alcoholic drinks that you can enjoy throughout the year. There are many interesting drinks that have been lost to time but some such as cider mead (which has been around since about 7000BC) & perry are reinventing themselves. This book explains where & when to find your raw materials & what sort of equipment youll need. It

Includes:: delicious recipes that use common & less common fruits. It will also show you how to cut (expensive) corners without cutting corners on quality.

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With polymer clay & imagination Maureen Carlson has brought a whole world of cheery little characters to life. You can do it too! This book makes it fun & easy-no sculpting experience or fancy equipment required! Youll find lots of full-color pictures & detailed step-by-step projects to lead you all the way-starting with simple neighborhood kids & progressing to more complex characters like Grandma & Saint Nick. Youll learn how to make every detail just right from hair to facial expressions to feet. When you get the hang of it you can create lively little folks of your own imaginings...even personalize our clay characters for extra-special gifts. No two will ever be exactly alike but each one is guaranteed to make you smile! ...

Tatty Devine are the cult jewellery brand of this generation. Named one of the top 50 coolest brands in the world by Dazed & Confused" their pieces are individual brim with personality & are the most covetable accessories around. Within three months of making their first piece in a tiny studio off Brick Lane in 1999 Tatty Devines founders Harriet Vine & Rosie Wolfenden had Harvey Nichols & Browns stocking their fledgling line & " Vogue" shooting their first collection. In " How To Make Jewellery With Tatty Devine" Harriet & Rosie bring their decade-plus experience of accessory-making to the page with a quirky creative guide to making your own stunning jewellery. This book

Includes:: basic techniques for creating your own necklaces earrings rings cuffs & more as well as various pieces for you to make created by Tatty Devine."

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Have you ever wondered how to draw your favourite manga character or design a character of your own? Manga artist Katie Coope shows you how step by step. Use this book to create your own manga hero or heroine
- their adventures start here! * Diamond/ Band 17 books offer more complex underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes & points of view. * A mind map on pages 54 & 55 helps children recap all the different things to think about when drawing their own manga characters. * Text type: An instruction book. * Curriculum links: Art & Design.
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