Ant and Snail decide to have a race. Ant speeds off and is soon in the lead, but when Ant trips over and fall in a pit, he is glad when Snail arrives to help him. This story is illustrated in bright 3D colour by Jon Stuart.
- Red / Band 2A - A simple traditional story
- Text type - Fiction
- The focus phonemes for this book are ai, f, n, and r. Other phonemes practised are s, a, ta, i, p, c/k, e, o, d, g, u, h.
- Children can follow and discuss the route taken by Ant and Snail using the map on the final spread.
- Paul Shipton also wrote Yellow 3 Bart the Shark and The Sun and The Moon.
- This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.
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.
Title: Collins Big Cat Phonics - Ant and Snail: Red A/Band 2A
Author: Shipton, Paul
ISBN: 9780007235841
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Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication Date: 2006-09-01
Number of Pages: 16
Weight: 0.0590 kg