One snail, two beetles, three worms, four spiders and five flies - the frog eats them all, with hilarious consequences. But who will be next on the menu? This humorous story is brilliantly illustrated by Sandra Aguilar.

* Pink A/Band 1A books offer emergent readers very simple text supported by illustrations.

* A story map on pages 14-15 allows children to recap the story and discuss each stage.

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

* Curriculum links: Science: Plants and Animals in the Local Environment

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 .

Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Zoe Clarke is a author and editor. She works mainly on illustrated fiction and non-fiction children's books, with over 40 titles published for the educational market.