Fiction 5+

When their mother tells them they have to fend for themselves, the Three Little Pigs build houses of their own. They better be sturdy because the Big Bad Wolf is ready to huff and puff his way inside. Will they survive against this hungry beast? Or will the pigs become his next tasty treat?

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 b...

'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...

Pretty Thumbelina is the size of a thumb! Find out what happens when she meets lots of strange characters.

In this twist on the traditional Aesop fable 'The Lion and the Mouse', a tiger is caught in a trap, and only a tiny monkey can rescue him.

All Sloth Bear wants to do is play with Porcupine but it's nap time in the jungle and all the other animals are sleeping. So she throws a guava at Porcupine's tree to wake him up and SPLAT! THUD! BUMP! Little Tiger gets woken up too! And Little Tiger is rather hungry. This funny story set in the ...

Tilda and her doggy pal, Buddy, love building things! When the bridge breaks, what will they do?

The Famous Five are making a little public garden for the village. It's the perfect holiday project. After all, no one loves digging more than Timmy! But when he pulls out a surprise, the Five must investigate.

A glow-in-the-dark squid, drawn by the light of the moon, has wandered far from its friends on the ocean bed to the lake on Rubbish Island. The Tindims are puzzled by their new shiny lake, but with the help of Spokes, Barnacle Bow and a rather special invention, they discover the squid and try to...

Mother-and-daughter duo, prizewinning Sally Gardner and Lydia Corry, create a fun new world of characters and adventures in their empowering new series for 5-8 year olds inspiring conservation and inventive ways to recycle. The tiny Tindims are like the Borrowers-on-Sea, who turn our everyday rub...