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    Discover the Collins Big Cat Reading Programme

    Explore a handy overview of the Big Cat programme and see how it supports every stage of primary reading development.
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    New books for KS1

    Discover 24 new books in bands purple to lime+ including contemporary stories, graphic novels, poetry and non-fiction.

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      New books for KS1

      Discover 24 new books in bands purple to lime+ including contemporary stories, graphic novels, poetry and non-fiction.

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        Collins Big Cat 20 years of raising readers

        Celebrating 20 years of Big Cat!

        Since 2005, Collins Big Cat has been supporting children to love reading with high-quality, engaging and beautifully illustrated books.
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        Big Cat Read On

        Support upper KS2 children to read more and read widely with 30 new fiction free readers created to build reading stamina, build comprehension and fluency skills and nurture a love of reading.

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          Big Cat Read On

          Support upper KS2 children to read more and read widely with 30 new fiction free readers created to build reading stamina, build comprehension and fluency skills and nurture a love of reading.

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                Cross-Curriculum book collections

                Engage your pupils with fiction and non-fiction books carefully matched to the English, history, geography, and science Programmes of Study - inspire learning across subjects with Big Cat.

                  The Collins Big Cat full catalogue

                  Browse the complete Collins Big Cat catalogue to explore our full range of colour-banded, levelled readers for KS1 and KS2. Find titles by book band, reading level, or genre and take a closer look inside before you choose.
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                  Primary reading blog

                  Articles and information by teachers for teachers
                  Visibility of disabilities in children's books

                  Visibility of disabilities in children's books

                  Growing up I clung to the characters in books I could identify with; Sophie from ‘The Sophie Stories’ by Dick King Smith (same name, brown hair, likes animals), Susan from Jacqueline Wilson’s Candyfloss (brown hair, glasses, a bit of a...

                  3 min

                  The Role of Wordless Picture Books in Early Years

                  The Role of Wordless Picture Books in Early Years

                  Picture books are often a child’s earliest introduction to storytelling, their first experience of accessing worlds different to their own, of exploring imagination.

                  4 min

                  How I weaved my culture into my writing in ‘My Name is Miya’

                  How I weaved my culture into my writing in ‘My Name is Miya’

                  By Mio Debnam  I love stories, and I’ve been reading and writing them nearly all of my life, but although I’m...

                  4 min