Where is Aunty? (yellow)
This Ready to Read Colour Wheel (yellow) book is a narrative story about Mum, Tara, and Luke picking Aunty up from the airport, but they are running late.
About this resource
Series: Ready to Read Colour Wheel
Colour wheel level: Yellow
Category: Fiction
Where is Aunty?
Words by Susan Paris
Illustrations by Adele Jackson
Mum, Tara, and Luke need to pick Aunty up from the airport, but they are running late. When they arrive, they can’t find her. Eventually, Mum decides to use her cellphone to solve the problem.
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