Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds series features both fiction and non-fiction decodable readers designed to excite and inspire children, while being fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6. The series includes helpful notes and Handbooks that provide guidance in demonstration, modelling, monitoring comprehension, and expanding vocabulary. One book explores the evolution of maps and how they've changed as our understanding of the world has developed, written by Karen Wallace. Another book takes readers on a magical bus tour of strange and wonderful lands in a poem by June Crebbin. Both books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events, support comprehension skills, vocabulary development, and include reading notes to facilitate effective teaching of phonics.