A prize of 3500 biscuits, the most terrifying creature on Earth, square tomatoes and underwater torches are just some of the amazing things that crop up in this anthology of three wonderfully weird plays, based on original poems by Michael Rosen.

* Emerald/Band 15 books provide a widening range of genres including science fiction and biography, prompting more ways to respond to texts.

* Text type - Three plays based on poems.

* Curriculum links - Design and technology: Torches.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.

This is volume 2 in Collins Big Cat .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. 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 .

Michael Rosen is a poet, writer and broadcaster, and held the post of Children's laureate from 2007-2009. Collins UK has been publishing educational and informative books for almost 200 years. Terry Denton has written and illustrated many children's books, several of them with Andy, including the award-winning The 13-Storey Treehouse . He lives with his wife and three children.