World Book Day - Collins app to help parents

If you are a parent of a primary school child the Big Cat lion will be familiar to you.  My son is
enjoying these books in his school reading scheme.  He especially loves the information books.

photos courtesy of the publisher

Collins publisher of School reading scheme Big Cat books have released a BETT 2013 Award winning app to help parents read with their children.

Photos courtesy of Collins

Parents notes

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 Developed in partnership with Shoo Fly, all  8 apps are free to download until September 2013, and not only support a love of reading but the development of creative writing skills too.
They feature:

• ·        an animated, interactive version of the book
• ·        a record your own narration feature
• ·        a story creator tool - make your own book using characters, key vocabulary and backgrounds from the original story
• ·        support for parents to get the most out of the book.

You can download the apps for ipad, ipod here

Collins Big Cat is the reading series with over 400 titles for 3-11 year olds. It provides real books for real reading. Inspire and motivate young readers with 50/50 fiction and non-fiction from much-loved authors including Michael Rosen, Julia Donaldson and more. 

www.collinsbigcat.com