This wordless instruction text by celebrity gardener Kim Wilde combines photographs and illustrations to show how a scarecrow is made using recycled materials. Each step of the construction process is clearly depicted, in sequence, concluding with a photograph of the finished model.

* Lilac/Band 0 - wordless book that gives information through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how information books work.

* Text type - Wordless instruction text.

* The process is summarised in a flow diagram on pages 14 and 15 to give children the opportunity to recap the information.

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 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 16 pages in this book. This book was published 2006 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Kim Wilde studied horticulture and planting design at Capel Manor before becoming a resident designer on BBC's `Garden Invaders'. She has since presented daytime coverage of `The Chelsea Flower Show' and `The Great Garden Guide' as well as gardening slots for GMTV and `This Morning'. Kim has written regular gardening columns for The Guardian and for Prima and Bella magazines. Alongside this, Kim continues to enjoy a busy pop career, her family and her garden. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books.