Nip Nip!

It's a game of hide and seek and Dad the crab is looking for Tim, but he can't find him anywhere. As he hunts around the seabed he finds lots of other crabs in different hiding places, but will he ever find Tim? Written and illustrated by Shoo Rayner this is a fun story with lively, colourful artwork.

• Pink/1A – a simple story with a familiar setting
• Text type – Fiction
• The focus phonemes in this book are s, a, t, i, p, n, m, d
• A picture of the seabed on pages 14-15 shows all the crabs and their hiding places to help children recap the story