Genre: modern story with rhythm, rhyme and suspense.

Learning Objectives:

Word Recognition

Strand 5: Recognize and use alternative ways of spelling the phonemes already taught, for example, that the long vowel sound /a/ can be spelt with 'ai', 'ay' and 'a-e'.

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Explore the effect of patterns of language and repeated words and phrases.

This book is part of a book series called Rigby Star .

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.

There are 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited .

Julia Jarman is an ex-primary school teacher and is now a full-time childrens' author, specialising in fiction set during historical times.