This book has been graded for interest at 10-17 years. 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 128 pages in this book. This book was published 2004 by Teaching Resources .

Janet Allen spent her wingman years in Westfield, Maine. Having been a teacher for more than twenty years, Janet is the recipient of teaching awards and has written many educational books. This is her first children's book.