The Goldilocks Guide to Bad-tempered Bears: Band 10+/White Plus (Collins Big Cat) Rachael Davis 9780008541811

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. Levelled for guided and independent reading, each book includes ideas to support reading. Teaching and assessment support and eBooks are also available.

Whatever you think you know about bears - forget it. This guide contains the truth about what wild bears are really like ...

Zoologist-in-training Jessy Locks is on an adventure to observe endangered bears in their natural habitat, deep in the heart of the Enchanted Forest. She records everything she finds out in her science log, from the bears' diet, to their furniture preferences and their sleep patterns, to create The Ultimate Guide to (Bad-tempered) Bears.

White Plus/Band 10+ books provide challenging plots and vocabulary as well as opportunities to practise inference, prediction and reading stamina.

Pages 46 and 47 allow children to re-visit the content of the book, supporting comprehension skills, vocabulary development and recall.

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

Growing up as a mixed-raced only-child in a single-parent working class family, Rachael Davis often felt like the odd one out and stereotyped. She loved maths and science at school, but it wasn't until she was much older that she really began to love English. Although she was very creative at school and enjoyed stories, she never read any books about children like her. So, now Rachael's an author, she jumped at the chance to write a twisted fairy tale featuring a child with a similar background to her: a feisty young girl with a flair for science.