Sara Lynn Cramb – illustratör

Discover some amazing animal superpowers! Find out about animals with super strength and speed, read about some incredible birds, and learn why minibeasts matter. The selection of texts has been based on children's favourite non-fiction topics, supporting national curriculum topics and providing phonics practice. This fascinating collection of six Read with Oxford non-fiction texts is ideal for children who are gaining more reading confidence. It is packed full of incredible facts, with full-colour photos and artwork. The texts are phonics-based and have been specially written so that your child can read them for themselves. Tips for parents and fun after-reading activities help you to get the most out of the texts. Featuring much-loved characters, great authors, engaging storylines and fun activities, Read with Oxford offers an exciting range of carefully levelled reading books to build your child's reading confidence.Read with Oxford Stage 4 equates to Oxford Levels 6 and 7 used at school. For more information about the Read with Oxford Stages, as well as practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress, go to readwithoxford.com. Let's get them flying!

See, hear, taste, touch and smell. Find out about your senses and how they work in Super Senses. The fiction book that accompanies this title is Seeing in the Dark.Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and non-fiction books linked by curriculum-related topics. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring well-loved characters and a compelling non-fiction book. These topic-linked pairings will develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading across both text types. This book is one of six titles at Oxford Level 6, which are phonically decodable featuring a small number of pre-taught, non-decodable topic words to enrich the texts and support language development. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress.

Find out about lots of different crabs at the seaside.Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fully-decodable books that help you match your phonics teaching and practice, while inspiring and engaging your young readers. Specially developed to enhance children's vocabulary alongside their decoding skills, these books are perfect for sharing.

Perfect for any budding wildlife explorers, this backpack encourages children to get outside and discover nature at night-time! Children will be able to light the way with their own LED torch - ideal for spotting any nocturnal creatures. And it's not only animals that come out when it's dark - readers can also learn to navigate the night sky with a handy fold-out constellation guide, as well as their own glow-in-the-dark star stickers. The explorer's guidebook is packed with fun activities and useful information about how to identify creatures whilst out and about, whether in a garden or adventuring further afield on a night-time nature walk.This complete kit is the perfect introduction to nature once the sun has gone down, for children aged 6+!

Baby golden tortoise beetles pile poop on their backs to create a shield as protection from predators.  Silver-spotted skipper caterpillars can shoot their poops 40 times their own body length to conceal their true locations.  Baby hoopoes squirt their poops into the eyes of attackers -- and who wants feces in their faces?  Baby Ozark blind cave salamanders use gray bat guano for food.The bottom (!!) line: Ever-inventive nature finds a thousand uses for poop.  Nothing goes to waste (!!).  This book is a guaranteed crowd-pleaser with a lot of information to share.

Wildlife is all around us, even in our towns and cities. From frogs to foxes, and spiders to squirrels, see what you can spot! This book will tell you all about the animals who visit and live in our urban spaces, from the things they eat, to the ways they've adapted to city life. Look out for tips on how you too can makesure our cities are welcoming to wildlife.Wildlife in the City is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 8-9 years.

The perfect introduction to nature at night for children! Ideal for any budding wildlife explorers, this pocket-sized guide is full of useful tips to help children spot and identify animals, birds, minibeasts and more on a night-time walk.Key Highlights:Encouraging Exploration: Designed to inspire children to venture outside and explore nature, this book ignites the spirit of adventure and discovery.Getting Started: Packed with valuable information, it provides the essential knowledge needed to spot and identify creatures big and small, making it accessible and enjoyable for kids. Field Guide Expertise: Inside, you'll discover a comprehensive field guide section, brimming with expert insights on species identification, such as what to feed hedgehogs, where you can spot fireflies and how to listen out for owls. Fun Activities: Discover how to make a creepy-crawly house, create shadow-puppet theatre and other fun activities.For more adventures, don't miss other titles in the series: National Trust: Out and About Minibeast Explorer, National Trust: Out and About Bird Spotter and National Trust: Out and About Sky Explorer.