This non-fiction book explains how sea creatures have spines, stings and teeth and other means to protect themselves from hungry predators. Packed with stunning underwater photographs, there is much to entrance young readers. • Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters. • Text type - Non-chronological report. • A simple table at the end of the book can be used to check understanding and to recap information learnt reading the book. • Curriculum links - Citizenship: Animals and us. • This non-fiction book is paried with a playscript on a similar theme: Worm Looks for Lunch by Julia Donaldson. • This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
Spines, Stings, and Teeth
This non-fiction book explains how sea creatures have spines, stings and teeth and other means to protect themselves from hungry predators. Packed with stunning underwater photographs, there is much to entrance young readers.
An engaging workbook for children who are using the Big Cat series. These workbooks accompany the popular Collins Big Cat series.
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Including nearly every major technical toxicological term as applied to both human and environmental studies, Lewis' Dictionary of Toxicology is broader and more comprehensive than any other to date.
This pioneering book is the first to address this important but neglected topic, which is likely to be the key challenge for marine scientists in the near future.