Publisher: Collins Series: Big Cat Pages: 16 Format: Paperback Author: Hiawyn Oram Nick Schon Illustrated by: Nick Schon Book Band(UK): Green Reading Recovery Level: 12-14 Genre/Text type: Fiction ISBN: 9780007185887 Everything about Mr Big is big. And ordinary pens just won’t do; every time he tries to write, Mr Big’s ordinary sized pens break. So Mr Big drives to the shop in his big car to buy a big pen. But size is not the only surprising thing about Mr Big’s new pen. This is a Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters. This is a fantasy story, and a storyboard on pages 22 and 23 provides a pictorial summary of the story in eight frames – an ideal cue for further discussion and activity. This book supports numeracy learning with shape, space and measure.
