Record Breakers: The Biggest

by Claire Llewellyn

Nothing hooks readers like record breakers, and this book compiles the biggest of everything into an early reader kids can't resist. Starting with animals, and moving through trees and plants, ships, planes, mountains, rivers, deserts, buildings, bridges and much more, each fascinating page of Kingfisher Readers Record Breakers-The Biggest by Claire Llewellyn draws kids in with interwoven photography and text that pushes their reading skills a little further. "Think big!" fact boxes and an index add new elements, and a glossary at the back helps define vocabulary highlighted throughout the text. LEVEL 3: READING ALONE WITH SOME HELP Accessible and engaging, with plenty of interest and repetition, and more variety of language and information than level 2. Text introduces a few more challenging words and a wider variety of tenses. Guided Reading K, L

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Claire Llewellyn is a prize-winning author of non-fiction for young readers – in 1991, she was shortlisted for the prestigious TES Junior Information Book Award for Take One: Rubbish – and in 1992, she won that award for My First Book of Time. Since then, Claire has written more than 100 children’s books on a wide range of subjects. Ask Dr K Fisher About Animals was shortlisted for the 2008 Royal Society prizes for Science Books Junior Prize.

Reviews

[babyhippoface · Rating 3 out of 5]

Information on the biggest animals, buildings, plants, bridges, ships, planes, land forms, and more are all here in this little informative book for kids. Solid information without too many details makes this accessible for 2nd-5th grade readers and still usable in the pre-k classroom when they learn about things that are "biggest".