Everyone looks forward to their holidays. In this book you can learn how holidays began, and what they are like today.

* Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.

* Text type: An information text.

* Curriculum links: History: `how people's lives have shaped this nation'.

* A timeline on pages 22-23 allows children to see the history of holidays in one neat summary.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book is part of a book series called Collins Big Cat .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading book uses the phonics method. This approach concentrates on teaching children how to map between sounds and spellings, allowing them to decode written words into their constituent sounds. Phonics skill thus involves being able to split the written word 'cat' into the phonemes /k/, /a/, /t/, and to map from letter 'c' to phoneme /k/, from letter 'a' to phoneme /ae/ and from letter 't' to phoneme /t/. Decoding skill is useful when reading unfamiliar words which use regular spelling sequences.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Lucy M. George is an editor and author who specialises in picture books. Her published books include Back to School Tortoise and The Snow Queen. She now has twin sons of her own called Felix and Hamish.