Worm Looks for Lunch

by Julia Donaldson

Published 5 January 2005

Worm is fed up with earth for lunch and wants something more exciting. He tries eating grass, bark and even a leaf on the advice of various animal friends – and almost becomes lunch himself when a hungry bird appears!

  • Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.
  • Text type – Playscript.
  • Instructions for putting on the play are on pages 22 and 23 to encourage children to discuss the script.
  • Curriculum links – Science: Plants and animals in the local environment.
  • This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.


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Talking Books are read-along versions of the Collins Big Cat titles. Lively readings, sound effects and music all help to bring the books to life. Talking Books are designed to support reading comprehension and language acquisition for all children, and are ideal for working with less confident readers and children with English as an additional language.