A strange sound came from the darkness outside and the old woman wished she had never gone into the nearby forest. She made it back home safely to bed, but that's when the spooky stuff really started to happen. Read on to find out what - if you're brave enough!

* Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.

* Text type - A play based on a traditional American tale.

* Curriculum links - Music: Painting with sound - Exploring sound colours; Art and design: Viewpoints.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Topaz Series .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels. 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 is a play book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

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