Picture Books for Older Readers

'Reading Champion' is a book banded reading programme for children who are learning to read or improving their reading skills to become a real reading champion! It offers fantastic, original stories accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading game. Each book has been carefully levelled making i...

'Reading Champion' is a book banded reading programme for children who are learning to read or improving their reading skills to become a real reading champion! It offers fantastic, original stories accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading game. Each book has been carefully levelled making i...

In his first picture book created specifically with a wider audience in mind, Oliver Jeffers shares a history of humanity and his dreams for its future. Where are we going? With his bold, exquisite artwork, he starts at the dawn of humankind following people on their journey from then until now, ...

Jin and Dad enter a competition to see who can make the best boat.

The king wants the perfect crown to wear for his party, but none of them are quite right. The queen might just have a good solution. 'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Original stories are accompanied by enga...

Twins Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield have always been inseparable, but starting a new school means a chance for new beginnings. Elizabeth is excited to write for the school newspaper, but Jessica is more interested in joining the exclusive Unicorn Club. What will happen when the twins realise th...

Bella and Bob must find a place to sleep. Will they find the best sleep spot?

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE). Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Ea...

Bear is fast asleep. Owl, Badger, Rabbit, Fox and Mouse all try to wake him up, but whose plan will work?

Revisit the tale of 'Beauty and the Beast' in graphic novel form. Beauty's father gets lost in the woods and stumbles onto a castle. He reaches for a rose to bring to his daughter - but there's a price. Will Beauty win her freedom, or be trapped in the Beast's castle forever?