White Band / Level 10
| Author | Heather Pindar |
| Illustrator | Darshika Varma |
| Format | 15x21cm, 32pg, SB |
| Publication Date | 28/11/2020 |
| AR Rating | – |
| Bic/CBMC Code | YQCR/B3M79 |
| ISBN 978-1-84886-771-0 RRP £5.99 | |
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The Big Custard Disaster
Description
When Hilldip Primary’s cook, Mrs Higgins, has to leave for a few days, she warns the school that she will quit if she comes back to a messy kitchen! Can they keep it clean?
Features
- 1 Story
- 32 Pages
- Direct speech
- Chapters
White Band Structure
- No specific phonic structure to these books, as children should be able to work out most reasonably common words without difficulty.
- Vocab choices are appropriate to this young readership and not too complex or demanding
- More scope for complex inference creeping in – e.g. sometimes the reader may need to read between the lines, or may know something the characters do not, or the author may set up unusual twist or surprise ending.
- Stories are slightly longer and more complex than before and bring in knowledge from outside the story in order to understand it.
- As above, though stories are becoming more varied in plot as well as sentence structure, sometimes including some more literary or stylised language where appropriate.