Record Breakers: The Biggest (Kingfisher Readers Series: Level 3)

by Claire Llewellyn, Thea Feldman

Overview

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 L3: 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 Levels: K, L

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780753468807
Publisher:	Kingfisher
Publication date:	10/30/2012
Series:	Kingfisher Readers Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	5 - 8 Years

About the Author

CLAIRE LLEWELLYN is a prize-winning author of nonfiction on a wide range of subjects for young children. In 1992, she won the TES Junior Information Book Award for My First Book of
Time, and in 2008 she was shortlisted for the Royal Society Prizes for Science Books Junior Prize for Kingfisher's Ask Dr K Fisher about Animals.

Table of Contents

Big record breakers 4

Enormous insects 6

The biggest bird 8

The biggest reptile 9

Biggest giant from the past 10

Biggest animal of all time 11

The biggest tree 12

The biggest flower 13

The tallest buildings 14

Record-breaking bridges 16

The biggest ship 18

The biggest plane 19

Land and sea 20

The biggest river 22

The tallest mountain 23

The biggest desert 24

Planets and moons 26

The biggest rocket 27

The biggest thing of all 28

Glossary 30

Index 32