This book takes a very simple look at listening. Levelled text with repeated use of high frequency words makes the book perfect for beginning readers, while bright, colourful illustrations complement the text and maintain readers' interest.

This book takes a very simple look at what children need to do in order to be a good friend. Levelled text with repeated use of high frequency words makes the book perfect for beginning readers, while bright, colourful illustrations complement the text and maintain readers' interest.

This book takes a very simple look at taking turns. Levelled text with repeated use of high frequency words makes the book perfect for beginning readers, while bright, colourful illustrations complement the text and maintain readers' interest.

This book takes a very simple look at sharing. Levelled text with repeated use of high frequency words makes the book perfect for beginning readers, while bright, colourful illustrations complement the text and maintain readers' interest.

This book takes a very simple look at the Tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur, examining what it looked like, what it ate, how it behaved, and its special skills and features such as its enormous teeth and powerful jaws. The book also discusses how we know about Tyrannosaurus rex today, showing where fossils are found and how scientists put them together.

Take a journey along Britain's canals and find out all about how they were built, what locks are and how they work, and canal boats and the people who might live on them. Case studies feature the larger canal systems in Britain such as the Grand Union Canal and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, while our 'top tips' on what to do when on a canal boat provide readers with practical advice for their next boating holiday.

Everyone can play football, anywhere in the world! Find out what you need to play the game and where in the world it is played in this action-packed non-fiction report by Daniel Nunn. This is a Band 02A/Red A book in the Collins Big Cat reading programme which offers predictable text with familiar objects and actions, combined with simple story development. This is an information book and children can recap the stages of the book on pages 14-15. This book supports physical education as well as learning about striking and fielding games. For another story in this Collins Big Cat book band for guided reading, try The Magic Egg (9780007329182) written by Vivian French and illustrated by Karen Donnelly.

Collins Arabic Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 3 to 11. The series is structured with reference to the learning progression of Arabic at nursery and primary schools researched especially for Collins. This carefully graded approach allows children to build up their reading knowledge of Arabic step by step. Level 7 books include story lines with more episodes in time sequence, and may include imaginary happenings in the context of familiar experiences. There is still repetition but more variation in pattern and more new words are introduced than in lower levels. Non-fiction titles bring in simple non-fiction tools, such as diagrams, labels and captions. Additional vowel marks that encourage the flow of pronunciation are introduced at this level. Verbal sentences of up to 8-10 words with repeating and accessible actions appear at this level. Double spacing is used between words to ensure children see where each new word in a sentence begins and ends. Everyone can play football, anywhere in the world! Find out what you need to play the game and where in the world it is played in this action-packed non-fiction report. Children can re-cap the stages of the book on pages 14–15.

This book takes a very simple look at pterodactyls, examining what they looked like, what they ate, how they behaved, and their special features and skills such as their wings and their ability to fly. The book also discusses how we know about pterodactyls and other dinosaurs today, showing where fossils are found and how scientists put them together.

This book takes a very simple look at the Velociraptor dinosaur, examining what it looked like, what it ate, how it behaved, and its special skills and features such as its sharp teeth and claws. The book also discusses how we know about Velociraptor today, showing where fossils are found and how scientists put them together.

The best new research on medieval clothing and textiles, drawing from a range of disciplines and with a special focus on reconstruction and re-enactment. Historical dress and textiles, always a topic of popular interest, has in recent years become an academic subject in its own right, transcending traditional genre boundaries. This annual journal includes in-depth studies from a variety of disciplines as well as cross-genre scholarship, representing such fields as social history, economics, history of techniques and technology, art history, archaeology, literature, and language. The contents cover a broad geographical scope and a range of periods from the early Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Papers in this latest volume discuss clothing descriptions in an early Irish poem in relation to archaeological finds; the Latin inscription embroidered on the Bayeux Tapestry; clothmaking in twelfth-century French romances; medieval Paris as an international textile market; the cost of sartorial excess in England as attested by sumptuary laws and satire; textile cleaning techniques at a German convent in the fifteenth century; the use of jewelled animal pelts as fashion accessories in the Renaissance; and the social significance of the embroidered jacket in early modern England. Also included are reviews of recent books on dress and textile topics. ROBIN NETHERTON's research focuses on medieval Western European clothing and its interpretation by artists and historians; GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER is Professor ofAnglo-Saxon Culture, The University of Manchester. Her most recent books are Dress in Anglo-Saxon England (2004), and King Harold II and the Bayeux Tapestry (2005). Contributors: Niamh Whitfield, Gale R. Owen-Crocker, Monica L. Wright, Sharon Farmer, Margaret Rose Jaster, Drea Leed, Tawny Sherrill, Danielle Nunn-Weinberg

This book takes a very simple look at what children need to do in order to be a good friend. Leveled text with repeated use of high frequency words makes the book perfect for beginning readers, while bright, colorful illustrations complement the text and maintain readers' interest.

Each book in this series looks at how to say the numbers 1 to 10 in a different modern foreign language, with each spread within the book covering a different number. Text on each page is in both English and the foreign language, and simple, labelled photographs provide additional support. A "dictionary" at the end of each book gives all the words featured in both the foreign language and English, and also includes a pronunciation guide.

Each book in this series looks at how to say the numbers 1 to 10 in a different modern foreign language, with each spread within the book covering a different number. This book looks at the numbers in Welsh. Text on each page is in both English and Welsh, and simple, labelled photographs provide additional support. A "dictionary" at the end of each book gives all the words featured in both Welsh and English, and also includes a pronunciation guide.