Oxford Literacy Web Author:Dee Reid First Words Non-fiction is a collection of engaging books for very new readers. These books contain carefully controlled vocabulary and focus on familiar experiences. At Stage 1 each book consists of simple sentence constructions and one line of text per page. Furthermore, each page provides colourful picture cues in the form of photographs and... more » illustrations to help the reader decode the text. In "Animal Homes" we unearth some very special places; in "Changes" we discover what the future holds for different life forms; and we encounter some dreadful looking food in "Wrong Colours". In "How Many Legs?" we count of legs on some animals and insects; we encounter some scary creatures in "Fierce Creatures"; and in "Things That Go" we trace the journey of a variety of modes of transport.« less