There's a storm brewing and a mother and daughter are out on a walk - what can they see? Follow them on their journey as the weather changes, a storm arrives and they find an umbrella is not quite enough to keep them completely dry in this lovely story by Lucy Courtenay.

* Pink B/Band 1B books offer simple, predictable text with familiar objects and actions.

* Children can re-cap the journey and the changing weather on pages 14-15.

* Text type: A story with a predictable structure and patterned language

* Curriculum links: Geography: Weather around the world

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

Malcolm Rose was a lecturer in chemistry at the Open University. Now he is a full-time writer. Malcolm is the author of Kingfisher's 'TRACES: Luke Harding, Forensic Investigator' series for Kingfisher fiction, and has also written many books for Scholastic's 'Point Crime' series. In all these novels, forensic science is a key feature. Dave Hill graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 1983. He has illustrated comic books for 2000 AD, Judge Dredd Megazine, Crisis, Manga Entertainment and Caliber Press USA, and worked as a concept artist in the video games industry. Dave became freelance in 2005. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Lucy Courtenay worked in publishing for many years before leaving to become a full-time writer. She has contributed to a number of young fiction series, including Beast Quest. When not writing, she enjoys singing, reading and travel.