Suitable for children in Year 2 (age 6), Coral Reef is one of nine books from the Cambridge Reading non-fiction strand.

This strand has been designed to introduce young readers to information retrieval skills.

This book explores the extraordinary and dangerous world of the Great Barrier Reef.

With the help of underwater photography and detailed artwork, children will discover the many shapes and colours of coral, learning how coral forms and how the coral animal, the 'polyp', lives and eats.

The book features many of the Reef's creatures as well as its shipwrecks and islands.

Cambridge Reading at Key Stage 1 (Years 1 and 2) includes fiction, non-fiction, poetry and plays to offer children a variety of text types, authors and illustrators and provide a firm base for wider reading.