Percy and the Rabbit

by Nick Butterworth

Published 5 January 2005

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.

Percy and the Badger

by Nick Butterworth

Published 5 January 2005

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.

Talking Books are read-along versions of the Collins Big Cat titles. Lively readings, sound effects and music all help to bring the books to life.

They are designed to support reading comprehension and language acquisition for all children, and are ideal for working with less confident readers and children with English as an additional language.

Talking Books are read-along versions of the Collins Big Cat titles. Lively readings, sound effects and music all help to bring the books to life. Talking Books are designed to support reading comprehension and language acquisition for all children, and are ideal for working with less confident readers and children with English as an additional language.