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.This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery and quizzed for Accelerated Reader. For more guided reading books in this Collins Big Cat band, try Crunch and Munch (9780007186655) by Nora Sands.