Collins Big Cat is a guided reading series for ages 4-11 edited by Cliff Moon. Top children's authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that your children will love to read, banded to help you choose the right book for every child. Practical ideas for guided reading are included at the back of each book. Tod is a shy tortoise who hides away, especially when it's time to tidy up! But what will happen when Tod is forced out...

3) Christopher's Caterpillars

Author

Middleton, Charlotte

Series

Christopher Nibble

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Christopher Nibble and his friend Posie are keeping six hairy caterpillars as pets. They look after their pets carefully but, one day, the caterpillars disappear! Our gardening guinea pigs become the detectives of Dandeville and, with the help of Mr Rosetti, they solve their minibeast mystery in this bright and beautiul tale.

4) Christopher Nibble

Author

Middleton, Charlotte

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Christopher Nibble loves munching dandelion leaves. And he's not alone. All the guinea pigs in Dandeville eat dandelion leaves for breakfast, lunch and dinner. But no-one seems to do anything when the dandelions begin to dwindle. One day, Christopher Nibb

5) Nibbles: a green tale

Author

Middleton, Charlotte

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Every guinea pig in Dandeville loves to eat dandelion leaves until there is only one plant left, and Nibbles secretly and carefully tends this treasure until he can share the seeds with his community.

6) Tabitha's terrifically tough tooth

Author

Middleton, Charlotte

Publisher

Phyllis Fogelman Books

Pub. Date

c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Read Description

A young girl tries everything she can think of to make her loose tooth fall out in time to leave it for the Tooth Fairy.

7) Do you still love me?

Author

Middleton, Charlotte

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2003

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Upset when the arrival of a new pet, a baby chameleon, seems to displace his role in the family, Dudley the dog finds a way to prove himself indispensable.

8) Nibbles' garden: another green tale

Author

Middleton, Charlotte

Publisher

Marshall Cavendish Children

Pub. Date

2012

Language

English

Description

Read Description

When Nibbles the guinea pig and his friend Posie find caterpillars munching on their prize-winning dandelion plants, they decide to make the caterpillars their pets.

9) Lucky socks

Author

Weston, Carrie

Publisher

Phyllis Fogelman Books

Pub. Date

2002, c2001

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

Read Description

Knowing that terrible things happen to him when he does not wear his lucky yellow socks, Kevin despairs when he cannot find them, but then he is surprised by what happens.