Item category 1: Oversize

Colour and animals are shown (with a few surprises) together with a simple rhyming text, which contains some repetitive phrases.

When Colin McNaughton says he's talking big, he means big. Meet monsters, dinosaurs, giants and many other larger-than-life characters in this selection of funny verse and pictures. The poems are those Colin's young audiences most often request.

This series is 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.

Something Else tries to be like the others, but everything he does reveals how different he is. When Something turns up and wants to be friends Something Else isn't sure he's at all like him.

A snail longs to see the world and hitches a lift on a whale's tail. Together they go on an amazing journey, past icebergs and volcanoes, sharks and penguins, and the snail feels very small in the vastness of the world. But when the whale is beached in a bay, it's the tiny snail who saves the day.