The spring fair is an exciting event for any family - with traditional games, rides, stall and competitions. This year, the farmer has a problem. Find out what happens when everyone tries to help - will it be a case of 'too many cooks...'?!

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

* Text type - A play based on a traditional folktale.

* Curriculum links - Mathematics: Measures, shape and space.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

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

Dee White wanted to be a writer since she was 7 years old, and has published 16 books for children and young adults. She is also a certified writing teacher and mentor. Tracie Grimwood graduated from Swinburne University with a degree in graphic design and has worked as an illustrator ever since. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years.