Nick Butterworth's well known and much loved character Percy the Park Keeper stars in this beautifully told story for early readers. When Percy's cap, scarf and gloves go missing, they end up being used by some mischevious mice to decorate a snowman!

* Yellow/ Band 3 books offer varied sentence structure and natural language.

* Text type - A story with a familiar setting.

* A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 provide children with an opportunity to retell the story in their own words.

* Curriculum links - Geography: our local area; citizenship: animals and us.

* This story is one of three books by Nick Butterworth in the Collins Big Cat reading programme.

* This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

* This book has been quizzed for Accelerated Reader.