Picture Books for Older Readers

Kit the bandit needs to pay her crew, but she has spent all of their gold on a holiday! How will Kit and her parrot Pip come up with a way to pay the crew?

Barb is a Berzerker, one of a group of warriors sworn to protect the land of Bailiwick from monsters. But the fearsome crew soon meet their match in the evil villain Witch Head. Using power from his magical sword, he tricks the Zerks and takes them captive. All except Barb, who escapes, taking Wi...

Henrietta is busy baking a cake for the barnyard bake off contest. But then, Henrietta trips! The cake is a mess! What will Chef Ram-see say?

In the land of 'What-To-Do' there is a dragon who has made such a nuisance of himself that he is known as Basil the Bully! So what happened to make Basil change his ways and turn him into something far better than a bully!

After only ever playing with friends and schoolmates, Ana Ramirez is excited to attend a basketball summer camp where she'll play on a real team with real teammates. But when the coach says they'll use something called 'zone defence', the shooting guard feels totally lost and starts to doubt her ...

Molly the baby elephant loves playing in mud. But now her keepers have to clean her!

Bear has run out of honey, and he wants some more. When he spots a bee in the garden, he knows just what to do! 'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.

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?