BIG BOOK: HAWKINS: PAT THE CAT 1st Edition - Cased - Tapa dura

Pat the Cat's Big Books are ideal for whole class shared reading with beginners. Humorous rhyming stories supported by bold and appealing illustrations provide a range of opportunities to cover aspects of text level word level and sentence level work. The flip-the-page format of the original small books has been retained allowing the whole class to understand that if they can read Pat they can read cat rat and lots of other simple words that follow the same CVC (consonant-vowel-consonant) pattern. Children will quickly get the idea that they can create and recognize strings of rhyming CVC words simply by changing the initial consonant. Extension work can include changing both consonants to make other CVC words with a middle short "a" sound discussing the dialogue and punctuation in the speech bubbles and exploring the characters through role-play.

Colin and Jacqui - a husband and wife team - are top children's writers and illustrators in the UK. Colin Hawkins was educated at art school in the north of England and then worked as an illustrator/designer for the Daily Express before working on magazines and in advertising. Jacqui Hawkins was trained as a graphic designer at Goldsmiths College. In 1979 the two had the idea to begin illustrating children's books together. Since then, Colin and Jacqui have created some of the most exciting books for children available today.