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| Gar [ve Just Had a So Idea} a coular leu | | cols BIG CAT IsCaame ander ‘epost angen te words foe Published by Collins ikl inden cel ror {An imprint of HarperCollinsPublshers foe htc maged oe hoc Taner eo ae ioe Simms ase ee ‘Brow he compete Cis catalogue www.collins.co.uk ‘Text and illustrations © 2010 Scoular Anderson. Design © HarperCollinsPublishers Limited 2010 Series editor: Clff Moon, 109 ISBN-13. 978-0:00-733609.8 Scoular Anderson asserts his moral right tobe identified asthe author ofthis work All sights reserved. No part of thls publication may be reproduced, stored in a {elrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the Publisher or @ licence permitting restricted copying in the United Kingdom issued by ‘the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London W1T ALP. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data ‘Acatalogue record for this publication is availabe from the British Library. Ilustrator: Scoular Anderson Design Manager: Niki Merrett niki@whitehomdesign.co.n2) Designer: Kim Silitoe (www.marmaladebookdesign.com) Reading ideas author: Clare Dowdall Acknowledgements Collins would like to thank the teachers and children at the fllowing schools who took part in the development of Collins Big Cat: Chudleigh C of & Community Primary Schoo! Haydon Abbey Combined School John Betts Primary School Offley Endowed Primary Schoo! Potters Gate CE Primary School ‘Wadebridge Community Primary School Printed and bound in China by RR Donnelley APS ‘Get he fatesCins Big Cat news at www.collins.co.uk/collinsbigcat [ve Just Had a Bright Idea! Written and illustrated by Scoular Anderson Contents I've just had a bright idea! 2 What happens when you have a bright idea? 4 Guess what they invented . 6 Anelectric idea 8 A zippy idea 10 Arolling idea 12 Achilly idea 14 Amoving idea 16 Adry idea 18 Some ideas that weren't so bright 20 Glossary 21 Inventors and their inventions 22 Collins Fein Raia Smt se | UL AAAA A RSA AAC WAV AZZ, | g , | Mfve just Aad a bright idea! SPSSAL AOS SS LLU AAI MY as An invention is a clever idea or thing. An inventor is a person who thinks up the clever idea. Sometimes inventors see something strange, which gives them an idea. A man saw bits < of a plant stuck ex \ on his dog's fur. of J . This man invented Velcro. loops, like x the dog's for hooks, like the plant i What happens ee you \ ea SS exe ong oa) This man was a painter ... Other inventors made his ideas work 400 years later.

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