Dad grows a huge pumpkin for a contest in Pumpkin Mess. Can he get it there without making a mess? The nonfiction book that accompanies this title is Grow a Strawberry Mess. Oxford Reading Tree Explore with Biff, Chip and Kipper is a series of paired fiction and nonfiction books linked by curriculumrelated topics. Each pair consists of an engaging story featuring wellloved characters and a compelling nonfiction book. These topiclinked pairings will develop and deepen their reading comprehension and foster a love of reading across both text types. This book is one of six titles at Oxford Level 3, which are phonically decodable featuring a small number of pretaught, nondecodable topic words to enrich the texts and support language development. All the books in the series are carefully levelled, so it is easy to match every child with the right book and enable them to progress.