This Big Book provides a range of text types from a wide selection of favourite children's authors and illustrators.

Focus on Literacy Big Book 1A contains extracts from the following children's books:

Little Bean's Holiday by John Wallace

The Clothes We Wear by Sally Hewitt

Tell us a Story by Allan Ahlberg

Time for Bed by Georgie Adams

The Little Red Hen by Georgie Adams

Farm Animal by Amanda Benjamin

Suddenly by Colin McNaughton

Lines and Squares by AA Milne

Catch that Hat by Emma Chichester Clarke

Rain by Spike Milligan

When the Wind Blows by John Foster

Bedtime for Frances by Russell Hoban

After Dark by Michael Rosen

Grandpa's Face by Eloise Greenfield

My Granny has .. by Catherine and Laurence Anholt

A is for Africa by Ifeoma Onyefulu

I is for India by Prodeepta Das

C is for China by Sungwan So

A Present for Paul by Bernard Ashley

An Important Letter by Georgie Adams

The Night Before Christmas by Clement C Moore