Bungleman is Pickleton's very own local superhero. Dennis is his long-suffering son. When disaster strikes in Pickleton, it is Bungleman who everyone calls upon to save the day. Unfortunately, Bungleman is a rather useless superhero. When things go wrong, Dennis secretly always comes to his dad's rescue.

* Topaz/ Band 13 books offer longer and more demanding reads for children to investigate and evaluate.

*Text type - A story with a familiar setting.

* A reader response page provides lots of opportunities for speaking and listening and to scaffold writing.

* Curriculum links - Art and design: People in action; Citizenship: People who help us - the local police; ICT: Writing stories: communicating information using text.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This book features in the following series: Collins Big Cat, Topaz 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 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Julian Mosedale is an Illustrator and sometime teacher working in North London. His cartoons and illustrations have appeared everywhere from jazzing up serious grown up stuff in newspapers like The Independent and The Observer to huge wallpaper murals in children's hospitals and schools. He is particularly pleased with his children's story books and activity books. He has produced a number of these for Buster Books, including The London Colouring Book, The Colouring Book, Messy Monsters and The Rio Activity Book. All of which are guaranteed to provide hours of inventive doodling, intricate colouring and amazing masterpieces for all who pick up a pen and venture inside their covers. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Jeremy Strong is a multi-award winning author of hilarious children's books, and an expert in both making children laugh and engaging them in reading.