Collins Big Cat — ROYAL RAP: Band 08/Purple ISBN: 9780007591138

A humorous poem with one couplet on every monarch from William the Conqueror to Elizabeth the Second. • Purple/ Band 8 books offer developing readers literary language, with some challenging vocabulary. • Text type – A poem. • Curriculum links – History: ‘Pupils should be taught about … events beyond living memory that are significant nationally’. • A royal timeline on pages 22–23, showing dates on the throne of all monarchs, allows children to place the poem in context.