This book is part of a book series called Popular Rewards Early Readers .

This book has been graded for interest at 5+ years. 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 Synthetic phonics method. (This can also be referred to as 'blended phonics' or 'inductive phonics'). A phonics 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. In Synthetic Phonics, children are taught to sound and blend from the start of reading tuition. Children are taught a small group of letter sounds and then shown how these can be co-articulated to pronounce unfamiliar words. Other groups of letters are then taught and the children blend them in order to pronounce new words. The pronunciation of the word is discovered through sounding and blending, and spelling by mapping sounds to letters. Consonant blends that cannot be read by blending are explicitly taught.

There are 36 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Award Publications Ltd .

Sally Emerson is an adult novelist with a particular interest in traditional rhymes for children. Colin and Moira Maclean are the popular illustrators of over fifty books for children, particularly traditional material such as fairy tales, nursery rhymes and nursery stories. Their books for Kingfisher include The Kingfisher Playtime Treasury and The Kingisher Nursery Treasury. Moira Maclean lives in the South of France. Colin Maclean died in 1997.