Crafty Cat has hatched a plan to chase the other animals out of the barn, but will it be a runaway success or farmyard folly? Now available as a picture book and CD. It is a very hot day on the farm so all the animals are cooling down in the shady barn. But Cat is still feeling hot and bothered. He doesn't want to share the barn with the others, so he sneaks up ever so quietly behind Pig and all the Piglets! and suddenly shouts 'SHOO!'. And it works! The piggies scamper out of the barn, and so Cat quickly sets about chasing all the other animals away too. But once he's accomplished his aim, Cat sees that all the other animals are having fun outside whilst he is left all alone in the barn. Maybe his plan wasn't such a good idea after all!

 

There are 25 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 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers .

Karen Langley lives in the Lake District. She wrote Shine in collaboration with her husband, Jonathan Langley. Michael Rosen is a poet, writer and broadcaster, and held the post of Children's laureate from 2007-2009.