Worm is fed up with earth for lunch and wants something more exciting. He tries eating grass, bark and even a leaf on the advice of various animal friends and almost becomes lunch himself when a hungry bird appears! Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.Text type - Playscript.Instructions for putting on the play are on pages 22 and 23 to encourage children to discuss the script.Curriculum links - Science: Plants and animals in the local environment.

 

 

This book features in the following series: Collins, Collins Big Cat, Collins Big Cat Talking .

This book has been graded for interest at 5-6 years.

There are 24 pages in this book.

This is a picture book. A picture book uses pictures and text to tell the story. The number of words varies from zero ('wordless') to around 1k over 32 pages. Picture books are typically aimed at young readers (age 3-6) but can also be aimed at older children (7+).

This book was published in 2012 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Margaret Nash is an up-and-coming author of fiction and won the Silver Smarties Award in 1998. She lives in Leighton Buzzard in Bedfordshire. Martin Remphry is a young illustrator with a growing reputation. Principally known for his black and white line work in series such as Sparks, he has enjoyed recent success with picture books such as When I was young. Martin lives in London. Julia Donaldson is a former Children's Laureate and the author of the internationally bestselling book The Gruffalo, as well as numerous other popular titles. Jonathan was born in 1965, the son of a rig fitter and a primary school teacher. He first developed his skills as a writer and illustrator while studying architecture, illustrating poems and lyrics that he had written. After leaving college, he worked as an architect for several years, before pursuing a career in children's books. In addition to writing books such as Bringing Down the Moon, and Ruby Flew Too, he also paper-engineers pop-up books.