This wonderfully emotive collection of poems by award-winning poet Gareth Owen explores both the humorous and more serious elements of childhood, and is filled with beautiful illustrations by much-loved illustrator Peter Bailey

* Ruby/Band 14 books give increasing opportunities for children to develop their skills of inference and deduction.

* A poetry book

* A seasonal garden scene on pages 46 and 47 highlight the changing weathers and emotions that are focused on throughout the poems, providing plenty of speaking and listening opportunities.

* Curriculum Links: Citizenship: Living in a diverse world

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

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 48 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Gareth Owen is a poet, novelist and broadcaster. He is particularly noted as a prize-winning writer of poetry for children.