Collins Big Cat — Happy New Year: Band 05/Green ISBN: 9780007591046

The start of a New Year is celebrated in different ways all over the world. Find out how inside! • Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters. • Text type – An information book. • A map of new year celebrations can be found on pages 22-23 to encourage children to discuss the information. • Curriculum links – Geography: ‘Pupils should be taught to … understand geographical similarities and differences through the study of human and physical geography of a region of the United Kingdom, a region in a European country, and a region within North or South America’.