One potato is not at all happy about being eaten! He leads the farmer's wife on a wild potato chase through the garden, hoping she'll choose another vegetable for her dinner. Will she catch him?

* Green/Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters

* Text type: A rhyming story

* Children can follow the potato through the countryside in the story map on pages 22 and 23.

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

. 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 .

Lynne Rickards is a writer and has worked as a translator in Toronto, a proofreader in Montreal, and an editor in Glasgow. Her early career included a brief stint as a children's illustrator for Crabtree Publishing Company. Andy Rowland lives in Bury, near Manchester. This is the first book he has illustrated for Bloomsbury. Andy is also published by Ladybird, HarperCollins and Usborne, among others. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.