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Big Cat

Collins Big Cat titles are designed to make reading fun. They range from early phonics and letters-and-sounds texts to more challenging fiction and non-fiction for older readers.

One Potato cover with smiling potato rolling along a garden

A simple rhyming story about a potato who does not want to be eaten! He rolls out of the kitchen and into the garden, with the farmer's wife chasing after him.

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Illustrator: Andy Rowland

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ISBN: 9780007591022

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Age: 3+

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Cross section of the ground showing potatoes growingunderground
Cross section showing a foot and rake digging the potatoes out
Potato escaping through the garden, past cabbages and Brussels sprouts
Cover image of cartoon crocodile with big wide toothy smile

Another silly rhyming tale of a little crocodile who refuses to go to the dentist.

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Illustrator: Simona Meisser

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ISBN: 9780007461882

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Age: 3+

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Clementine with beach ball playing with friends
Clementine pulling on telephone line to stop her mum calling the dentist
Dentist is a hare climbing into Clementine's mouth as mum looks on anxiously
Cover image of an elephant in a red dress playing a trumpet

Mr Hare is being driven crazy by all the noise coming from his upstairs neighbours. Will he forgive noisy Neesha if she invites him to a party?

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Illustrator: Sarah Jennings

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ISBN: 9780008251741

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Age: 3+

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Mr Hare at the door complaining to Mrs Elephant
Mr Hare lying on a chaise long with 'toot, toot, toot' coming from the window above
Neesha and her hippo friend Lulu dancing in tutus
Mairi cover showing young woman in hilly landscape on a motorbike

Mairi Chisholm was 18 when the First World War began. Instead of staying safe at home like most girls her age, she wanted to help! This is the true story of an amazing nurse who rescued wounded soldiers from the front lines and was an expert driver and mechanic.

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Illustrator: Eugene Smith

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ISBN: 9780008424596

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Age: 8+

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School photo of Mairi in white blouse and dark tie
Mairi leaning over a fence watching her brother in a motorcycle race
Two women in WWI uniforms at the wheel of an open ambulance
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