Collins Big Cat - Swords and Bikes: Band 16/Sapphire

Join Michaela as she finds herself propelled into an alternate universe and on a race against time to save her friend Norris. This exciting adventure story in verse was written by Children’s Laureate (2022-2024) and multi-award-winning poet Joseph Coelho.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support for exploring poetry, and stimulating activities.

Text type: A story in verse

Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.

Collins Big Cat is a whole-school reading programme that provides complete support for primary reading. Children will become fluent readers through hundreds of high-quality fiction and non-fiction banded books by award-winning authors and illustrators. In-depth teaching resources support you in developing and assessing key reading skills at all stages from early reading through to phonics, to guided, whole-class and independent reading for more confident readers.