Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

In this Scandinavian traditional tale, a greedy ogre demands the farmer's crops. Can the farmer think of a way to trick him? 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...

Fola Oduwole is your average teen, with a head for numbers, an eye for the camera, but she's heartbroken over her brother Deji's cancer treatment. The last thing she needs is more on her plate. But when she's transported into Folkshore, a hidden part of London, she finds her plate runneth over. T...

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).

Mother Duck's five little ducklings just can't resist swimming off to explore. Find out what they get up to in this charming retelling of the well loved rhyme. Not only perfect for cosy bedtime reading, this story book will also help build very young children's awareness of simple numeracy.

Mother Duck's five little ducklings just can't resist swimming off to explore. Find out what they get up to in this charming retelling of the well loved rhyme. Not only perfect for cosy bedtime reading, this little board book will also help build very young children's awareness of simple numeracy.

At the edge of the woods, there is a great tree. Peep through the branches and you might just see some little people who stand as tall as your thumb and have heads the size of hazelnuts. Sylvia prefers to be alone rather than play noisy games with the other Tree Keepers. But one day, she finds a ...

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). A traditional Aesop fable is retold as the story of Fox and Goose, who try to be friends, ...

Fox just loves playing tricks, but his friends don't always find them funny. Can Stork help Fox to be kind?

In Aesop's 'The Fox and the Crane' Fox invites Crane to tea but gives her a flat dish so she can't eat any of the food. When it's Crane's turn to invite Fox, what dish does she use? In the Chinese fable 'King of the Jungle' Tiger thinks he is the king of the jungle, but can Fox fool him to save h...

Everyone in Fairyland is preparing for the Fairy Olympics, but Jack Frost and his goblins have stolen the magic sporty items so they can win by cheating! Francesca needs the girls' help to get her Magic Football back.