Genre: Fantasy story with a predictable structure and patterned language.

Learning Objectives: Word Recognition

Strand 5: Read simple words by sounding out blending the phonemes all through the words from left to right (CVC words).

Language Comprehension

Strand 7: Retell narratives in the correct sequence, drawing on language patterns of stories.

This book is part of a book series called Rigby Star .

This book is aimed at children in primary school. 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 16 pages in this book. This is a guide book. This book was published 2000 by Pearson Education Limited .

Paul Shipton is an award-winning children's author. He published his first children's book in 1991, (Zargon Zoo). He lives and works in Wisconsin, USA.