Collins Big Cat
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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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
Discover how the Vikings raided, traded and invaded for 300 years across Europe and beyond. Learn all about the Vikings' secret weapon: the longship and just how powerful it was.
- Copper/Band 12 books provide more complex plots and longer chapters that develop reading stamina.
The idea for a children's book about Viking longships came to Ben Hubbard while researching his adults' book: The Viking Warrior. Longships were key to the Viking success in their raiding, trading and invading exploits. A technological wonder of the age, the longship enabled both swift attacks on coastal settlements as well as long sea voyages to far flung destinations, such as the Black Sea, Greenland and North America. The striped sail of the longship remains an enduring symbol of the Vikings to the present day and also graces the cover of this book for Collins: The Vikings' Secret Weapon.
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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.
Meet warriors from around the world, from the Spartans to the samurai. Discover how these tough, determined people lived, fought and died. Find out about their famous leaders and their most fearsome feats.
Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
Text type: An information book
Curriculum links: History and Geography
Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.
Ben Hubbard is an author of several books about warrior societies, both for adults and children. This inspired him to put several prominent warrior groups into one children's title: Warriors of the World.