Satoshi Kitamura

This is my hand. It can do all sorts of things. Most of the time it does good things, but sometimes… Kitamura introduces us to the wonders of something as simple as your hand – it can push, it can pull. It can paint, it can pat. And when your hand has a bad habit, it can pick your nose! Award-winning author and illustrator Satoshi Kitamura unfolds a wonderful celebration of the simple hand, also starring a favourite Kitamura character, Boots the cat.

A wonderful collection of comic tales, told in an engaging comic strip format style, about the lovable but dopey cat, Boots.

A wonderful anthology of poetry by award winning poets John Agard and Grace Nichols, brought to life with beautiful illustrations by Satoshi Kitamura. Purple/Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary.Text type: A poetry book.An illustration on pages 22 and 23 encourages children to recap the poems they have read in the anthology.Curriculum links: Art and Design: Portraying relationships; Music: Play it again – exploring rhythmic patterns; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world

Millie loves hats, but she has no money and she can't afford to buy any of the lovely hats in town. But the man in the hat shop has an idea. He produces a box containing a hat too fine and beautiful to behold, but with the most perfect shape and colour imaginable, if Millie dares to imagine it. Millie does dare, and soon she can not only see her own beautiful hat, but everyone else's hats as well.

Build your child’s reading confidence at home with books at the right level In these two animal stories from the Caribbean, find out in the first why Tiger wanted to get rid of all the other animals and keep the jungle for himself and what clever Anansi did about it, and in the second how shy Owl nearly lost everything because he didn't have the courage to show his face. Topaz/Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.Text type: Two stories from another culture.The feelings roller coaster for Owl on pages 30-31 help children to discuss the different emotions addressed in the story.Curriculum links: Geography: Passport to the world; Citizenship: Living in a diverse world; ICT: Combining text and graphics.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Late one night, an old lady in a pointed hat climbs through the window into Nicholas's bedroom. She brandishes her broom, fires out some words, and then leaves as abruptly as she came. It's puzzling at the time, but not nearly as puzzling as what happens the next day... A hilarious tale of experiencing life from a different point of view, and finding out that it's just as complicated!

Travel 20,000 years into the past and discover what life as a caveman was like in this prehistoric picture book by a prodigiously talented artist.One day a little boy is walking along when he trips, stumbles and falls ... into the Stone Age! He meets a girl his own age and her tribe, and learns all about their way of life. He watches them make tools, clothes and weapons. He sees how they hunt, fish, cook, celebrate – and even how they paint on the walls of caves. But when a furious cave bear attacks, he wakes up back in his own time where everyone tells him it was only a dream. But was it?

A simple text where a visit to an art show causes a girl to imagine what the world would be like if it was wholly yellow, red or blue. Realising that the world actually consists of all the colours of the rainbow, she paints lots of multicoloured pieces of art herself. Blue/Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.Text type – A simple non-fiction text.A gallery story map on pages 14 and 15 pictures the different stages of the girl's thought-processes for children to discuss.Curriculum links – Art and Design: Self-portrait.Science: How we see things.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

Wide awake, Woolly, a sheep, decides to go for a walk, and along the way he sees a butterfly, two ladybugs, three owls, four bats, five apples, six squirrels, a ladder with seven rungs, eight fireflies, and nine grasshoppers