Big Cat Readers: The Gardening Year (Book Band Orange/6) by Becky Dickinson (author)

Spring, Summer. Autumn. Winter. The garden changes with every season of the year. New surprises, new shoots and new jobs for the gardener.

Orange/ Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages. Text type – An information book. At the end of the book is a useful checklist of gardeners’ jobs in each season, which can be used for oral recap or to support children’s writing outside the reading session. Curriculum links – Science: ‘Pupils should be taught to observe changes across the four seasons’.