Nick Butterworth: Making Books: Band 05/Green

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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.

Nick Butterworth: Making Books: Band 05/Green Reviews | Toppsta

9780007185955

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This is Book 601 in the Collins Big Cat Series. See all Collins Big Cat books here.

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About Nick Butterworth

 Nick Butterworth was born in North London in 1946 and grew up in a sweet shop in Essex. He now lives in Suffolk with his wife Annette and they have two grown-up children, Ben and Amanda. The inspiration for the Percy the Park Keeper books came from Nick's many walks through the local park with the family dog Jake.

 

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