Sam the big, bad cat isn?t feeling well. Tom wants to take him to the vet. Sam doesn?t want to go, and finds a variety of hiding places to escape. Tom pursues him, getting more and more bedraggled in the process. Finally Tom goes to bed, leaving Sam ? who is feeling much better ? to enjoy a snack.? Yellow level/ Band 3 books offer early readers varied sentence structure and natural language.? Text type - A story with a familiar setting.? A storyboard on pages 14 and 15 reveals all of Sam?s hiding places in a pictorial summary of the day, providing the opportunity to recap the story.? Curriculum links - Citizenship: animals and us.? This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery