Clementine the crocodile is known for always being happy and having a big smile, but one day she gets toothache and can't smile anymore. Can she overcome her fear of the dentist and regain her smile?

* Orange/Band 6 books offer varied text and characters, with action sustained over several pages.
* Text type: A poem
* Curriculum links: Science: Ourselves; Health and Growth.
* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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

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. 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 book was published 2012 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. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.