Greedy Cat

by Joy Cowley
illustrated by
Robyn Belton
 Greedy Cat
Published 2015 by the Ministry of Education,
PO Box 1666, Wellington 6140, New Zealand.
www.education.govt.nz

First published 1983 by School Publications Branch,

Department of Education, Wellington, New Zealand

Text copyright © Joy Cowley 1983

Illustrations on the cover and pages 1–16 by Robyn Belton, copyright © Crown 1983
Illustration amendments on pages 10 and 11 (helmets) copyright © Robyn Belton 2015

The texture on the front and back covers is by blog.spoongraphics from http://goo.gl/6pDEVQ
and is used under a Creative Commons licence (CC BY 2.0)

All rights reserved.

Enquiries should be made to the publisher.

Publishing services: Lift Education E Tū

Series Editor: Bernadette Wilson
Designers: Adam Pryor and Simon Waterfield
Literacy Consultant: Kay Hancock

ISBN 978 0 478 16024 6 (print)

ISBN 978 1 77663 513 9 (online)

Replacement copies may be ordered from Ministry of Education Customer Services,

online at www.thechair.co.nz
by email: orders@thechair.minedu.govt.nz
or freephone 0800 660 662
Please quote item number 16024.

The teacher support material (TSM) and audio for this text
can be found online at www.readytoread.tki.org.nz
by Joy Cowley
illustrated by Robyn Belton

Ministry of Education
 Mum went shopping
and got some sausages.
Along came Greedy Cat.
He looked in the shopping bag.
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
and that was the end of that.

2 3
 Mum went shopping
and got some sticky buns.
Along came Greedy Cat.
He looked in the shopping bag.
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
and that was the end of that.

4 5
 Mum went shopping
and got some potato chips.
Along came Greedy Cat.
He looked in the shopping bag.
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
and that was the end of that.

6 7
 Mum went shopping
and got some bananas.

Along came Greedy Cat.

He looked in the shopping bag.
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
and that was the end of that.

8 9
 Mum went shopping Along came Greedy Cat.
and got some chocolate. He looked in the shopping bag.
Gobble, gobble, gobble,
and that was the end of that.

10 11
 Mum went shopping
and got a pot of pepper.

12 13
 Along came Greedy Cat.
He looked in the shopping bag.
Gobble, gobble –

14 15
 And that was the end of that!

16
This book is for students to read and enjoy after they have become
very familiar with the big book during many shared reading sessions.
Scan the QR code or use the short URL to go directly to an audio
recording of this book.

Greedy Cat
bit.ly/2RP6V24