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Making Books

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Making Books Synopsis

Would you like to find out who inspired the famous children's book character, Percy the Park Keeper? The author and illustrator who created him, Nick Butterworth, invites us into his home to show us how he works, from the first spark of an idea to the published book.

  • Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.
  • Text type - A non-fiction recount.
  • Pages 14-15 show three stages of Nick drafting an illustration of Percy, ideal for exploring ideas, preparation and editing/planning within children's own work.
  • Curriculum links - Art and design: Building shapes and patterns, an event in pictorial form.
  • This fascinating non-fiction book can be read alongside.Nick's other titles for Collins Big Cat, Percy and the Rabbit, and Percy and the Badger.
  • This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.
  • This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780007185955
Publication date: 5th January 2005
Author: Nick Butterworth
Publisher: Collins an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 23 pages
Series: Collins Big Cat.
Genres: Children’s / Teenage general interest: Practical art, drawing, painting, photography
Reading Scheme
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Art and artists
Children’s / Teenage general interest: Literature, books and writers