Don't Look Back: Big Cat Read On - Softcover

Davison, Emily Ann

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0008744920 ISBN 13: 9780008744922

Publisher: Collins, 2025

Synopsis

Big Cat Read On supports fluent readers to improve their reading skills and nurture a love of reading. Consisting of a wide range of engaging chapter books, the Big Cat Read On series improves reading stamina and comprehension, develops vocabulary, and introduces children to more sophisticated narrative structures and themes.

Orpheus is a talented lyre player, spellbound by Eurydice’s beauty. Eurydice is a woodland nymph, entranced by Orpheus’s singing. They fall in love and get married, but tragedy strikes. Can Orpheus use his skills to travel to the Underworld and return Eurydice to the land of the living?

Ask the author and Book talk questions invite the reader to think more deeply about the themes in the book and reflect on their reading experience. Online lesson plans provide guidance in using this book in a range of settings, including independent, social and whole-class reading – all designed to support the reader to connect with the book and encourage a positive attitude to reading.

About this title

About the Authors

Emily Ann Davison is a children’s author, and survivor of childhood eye cancer. She studied Psychology at university before training as a primary school teacher. Emily is passionate about children’s wellbeing, their development and education. She writes picture books and educational readers, with her work being translated into over 10 languages. Emily lives in the Garden of England, Kent, with her husband, daughter and mischievous dog.

Sunnu Rebecca Choi is an award-winning Korean/Canadian illustrator and printmaker based in London. Sunnu specialises in visual narratives, including editorials and publishing for various age groups, from children to mid-grade to adults. She received a BFA in fashion design from Parsons School of Design in NY and an MA in illustration from Kingston University in London.

Sunnu has won and been shortlisted for multiple awards, including the Bologna Children’s Book Fair, World Illustration Awards, 3×3 Illustration Annual, Communication Arts Illustration Awards and more. Her works have been shown at various exhibitions, including the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition and The Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers Exhibition

Edition details

• Publisher: Collins
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0008744920
• ISBN 13: 9780008744922
• Binding: Paperback
• Illustrator: Choi Sunnu Rebecca
• Number of pages: 112