Collins Big Cat supports every primary child on their reading journey from phonics to fluency. Top authors and illustrators have created fiction and non-fiction books that children love to read. Book banded for guided and independent reading, there are reading notes in the back, comprehensive teaching and assessment support and ebooks available.

When Tara Binns opens up her dressing up box something exciting happens …

Tara Binns finds herself working on coding and design for a computer game! The team have discovered that someone is hacking the game and some gamers have been losing their high scores. Does it have something to do with the rivalry between the coding and design teams? And can Tara help them to realise their individual skills and work together to complete the game development?

This exciting title in the Tara Binns mini series is written by Lisa Rajan.

Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically.

Ideas for reading in the back of the book provide practical support and stimulating activities.

Lisa Rajan writes children’s books that raise aspiration, challenge gender stereotypes and support mental wellbeing. She is the author of the Collins Big Cat Tara & Dani Binns titles, which introduce a range of STEM careers to a primary school audience through exciting adventure stories. Lisa has a BSc in Biotechnology and an MSc in Science Communication from Imperial College. She is married with three children and lives in south London. In her spare time, she runs marathons dressed as Wonder Woman.