The animals are having a race! And the winner gets to eat a delicious, brown nut. But the race does not go as planned. And the nut seems to have a life of its own!

The Nutty Nut Case is from Level 4 of Ready Steady Read! a fantastic graded reading scheme with four reading levels from Little Tiger Press.

Ready Steady Read! makes learning to read fun. Each book contains games and activities to reinforce learning and test comprehension in a way developing readers will enjoy as well as handy parent notes from Prue Goodwin, Lecturer in Literacy and Children's Books. Level 4 is suitable for able readers. The stories will help build their confidence, opening up the world of reading and imagination to them.

About Level 4:

• longer sentences with more complex structure
• rich, exciting vocabulary
• complex stories of up to 400 words
• emphasis on text more than illustrations

This book is part of a book series called Ready Steady Read .

. 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.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Little Tiger Press Group .

Kathryn White writes for children of all ages and is obsessed with animals. She's published by Little Tiger and Egmont and regularly visits schools and runs interactive workshops. Beast Hunter is her first title for A & C Black. Alan Durant is the author of over 40 books for children of all ages. He lives in Surrey. Vanessa Cabban has an MA in illustration from the Royal College of Art. She lives in Northumberland.