Collins Big Cat — THE LIFE CYCLE OF THE ORCA: Band 16/Sapphire ISBN: 9780008208905

Orcas are creatures of the ocean that stay in their family group their entire lives. Discover their life cycle in this book, from birth to death and everything in-between – swimming, playing, hunting and surviving. •Sapphire/Band 16 books offer longer reads to develop children's sustained engagement with texts and are more complex syntactically. • Text type – An information book. • The book is organised into short chapters to help children practise the skills of locating and identifying important information. • The glossary and index can be used to develop children's information retrieval skills further. • Curriculum links – Science