Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

Goldilocks and her little dog are off on an adventure, looking for that house again - the one with the chairs, the porridge and beds. The sound of the sea calls to them and before they know it, they have found quite a different sort of a house - there are bowls, and chairs and sort-of beds - plus...

Cheeky sun won't go to bed! He'll find any excuse to stay up - painting rainbows, drinking the sea, hiding behind mountains. - but even the sun must go to bed.

When his ship is lost in a storm, Gulliver swims to the island of Lilliput. Lilliput is no ordinary island, and Gulliver soon finds that he is a BIG problem for the tiny people who live there. Produced with full-colour artwork throughout, this version of Jonathan Swift's classic tale is retold in...

One of the world's greatest fairy tales is re-told in a graphic-novel format. In a far-away kingdom, there lives an Emperor who prizes fancy clothes above all else. He buys suit after suit made of the most expensive materials instead of tending to his threadbare kingdom. Then, one day, two travel...

At a time of great hunger Hansel and Gretel are abandoned in the woods by their parents. Lost and hungry they find a magic house made of sweets and bread. But when they take their first bite a strange woman with blood red eyes invites them in. This dual language edition contains text in English a...

Based on the classic fairy tale. When Hansel and Gretel get left in the woods, they are captured by a witch who lives in a house made from gingerbread and sweets. How will they ever escape?

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.

'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, 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...