Collins Big Cat - Hard Times: Growing Up in the Victorian Age: Band 17/Diamond

Paperback

  • Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
  • A timeline on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the main events of the Victorian era.
  • Text type: A non-chronological report
  • This book is paired with Moving Out a fiction story set in the past about a family in post-World-War-Two London deciding whether to move out to a New Town.
  • Curriculum links: History: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

RRP: £8.00

Imprint

Collins

ISBN

978-0-00-723106-5

Publication Date

01-09-2008

Format

Paperback

Pages

56 pages

Dimensions

192x265mm

Product Description

  • Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
  • A timeline on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the main events of the Victorian era.
  • Text type: A non-chronological report
  • This book is paired with Moving Out a fiction story set in the past about a family in post-World-War-Two London deciding whether to move out to a New Town.
  • Curriculum links: History: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Author

Jillian Powell, Illustrated by Various, Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat

Jillian Powell began writing with a big paper pad and coloured crayons when she was four. She used to make up 'news' stories and draw the pictures for them. When she grew up, she started writing short stories and features for magazines and then began working on books for children. She has written over 250 books including picture books and rhyming stories on ghosts, pirates, scarecrows and a dancing hippo. She also writes information books on every kind of subject from food and festivals to baby animals.

Imprint

Collins

ISBN

978-0-00-723106-5

Publication Date

01-09-2008

Format

Paperback

Pages

56 pages

Dimensions

192x265mm

Product Description

  • Diamond/Band 17 books offer more complex, underlying themes to give opportunities for children to understand causes and points of view.
  • A timeline on pages 54 and 55 help children to recap the main events of the Victorian era.
  • Text type: A non-chronological report
  • This book is paired with Moving Out a fiction story set in the past about a family in post-World-War-Two London deciding whether to move out to a New Town.
  • Curriculum links: History: What was it like for children living in Victorian Britain.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Author

Jillian Powell, Illustrated by Various, Prepared for publication by Collins Big Cat

Jillian Powell began writing with a big paper pad and coloured crayons when she was four. She used to make up 'news' stories and draw the pictures for them. When she grew up, she started writing short stories and features for magazines and then began working on books for children. She has written over 250 books including picture books and rhyming stories on ghosts, pirates, scarecrows and a dancing hippo. She also writes information books on every kind of subject from food and festivals to baby animals.