This wordless instruction text by celebrity gardener Kim Wilde combines photographs and illustrations to show how a scarecrow is made using recycled materials. Each step of the construction process is clearly depicted, in sequence, concluding with a photograph of the finished model.

• Lilac/Band 0 – wordless book that gives information through pictures and is designed to develop understanding about how information books work.
• Text type – Wordless instruction text.
• The process is summarised in a flow diagram on pages 14 and 15 to give children the opportunity to recap the information.