Collins Big Cat
4 total works
Nick Butterworth’s well known and much loved character Percy the Park Keeper stars in this beautifully told story for early readers. When Percy’s cap, scarf and gloves go missing, they end up being used by some mischevious mice to decorate a snowman!
- Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.
- Text type – A story with a familiar setting.
- A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 provide children with an opportunity to retell the story in their own words.
- Curriculum links – Geography: our local area; citizenship: animals and us.
- This story is one of three books by Nick Butterworth in the Collins Big Cat reading programme.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Nick Butterworth’s well known and much loved character Percy the Park Keeper stars in this beautifully told story for early readers. Percy tries to persuade a reluctant Badger to take a bath. Badger doesn’t want to, so Percy takes a bath instead – only to find he has some unexpected comapany when Badger falls in the water with him!
- Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with
sequential events and integrated literary and
natural language. - Text type – A story with a familiar setting.
- A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 provides children with the opportunity to retell the story in their own words.
- Curriculum links – Geography: our local area; Citizenship: animals and us.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Would you like to find out who inspired the famous children’s book character, Percy the Park Keeper? The author and illustrator who created him, Nick Butterworth, invites us into his home to show us how he works, from the first spark of an idea to the published book.
- Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.
- Text type – A non-fiction recount.
- Pages 14-15 show three stages of Nick drafting an illustration of Percy, ideal for exploring ideas, preparation and editing/planning within children’s own work.
- Curriculum links – Art and design: Building shapes and patterns, an event in pictorial form.
- This fascinating non-fiction book can be read alongside.Nick’s other titles for Collins Big Cat, Percy and the Rabbit, and Percy and the Badger.
- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
Would you like to find out who inspired the famous children’s book character, Percy the Park Keeper? The author and illustrator who created him, Nick Butterworth, invites us into his home to show us how he works, from the first spark of an idea to the published book.
- Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.
- Text type – A non-fiction recount.
- Pages 14-15 show three stages of Nick drafting an illustration of Percy, ideal for exploring ideas, preparation and editing/planning within children’s own work.
- Curriculum links – Art and design: Building shapes and patterns, an event in pictorial form.
- This fascinating non-fiction book can be read alongside Nick’s other titles for Collins Big Cat, Percy and the Rabbit, and Percy and the Badger.