Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

'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...

Teenage stable hand Sigrid wants to become one of the mighty and fearless valkyries. But with only a wingless gelding as her bonded pair, there's no chance in Hel of that happening. When a vision shows Sigrid leading a valkyrie charge on the legendary eight-legged horse, Sleipnir, a greater desti...

Young readers can follow Harriet the Hamster Fairy in this magical adventure. Get ready for an exciting fairy adventure with the no. 1 bestselling series for girls aged 5 and up. Fairyland is in uproar! Jack Frost has stolen the Pet Fairies magical pets. Without them, the Pet Fairies can't ensure...

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). Original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has...

'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been carefully graded so that it can be matched to a child's reading ab...

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills.

This story is part of 'Reading Champion', a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills.

This adaptation of the classic nursery rhyme has been specially extended to make it even more appealing to young readers. Join Mouse on her busy day as she cooks, cleans and dances to the chimes of the old grandfather clock. A QR code on the back cover provides a link to an audio recording of the...

A feel-good, rhyming picture book, with a positive message about being the hero of your own story!

The mighty Hercules takes on twelve disgusting feats including scooping massive mountains of manure in this epically gross Roman myth retelling! Will the demigod rise to the awful occasion or will he totally poop out? With wacky illustrations and descriptions at the end of how the story links to ...