Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

A kind frog helps a princess and she makes him a promise. What happens when the king tells her that she has keep her promise?

A prince wants to marry a real princess, so the queen devises a true test based on one pea and a lot of mattresses!

Detective Eye Princess King is taking on her toughest case yet: to find the 'pea', a priceless emerald that's disappeared from Mrs Snell's jewellery collection. But as Princess searches for clues, she discovers that Snell Manor holds many mysteries from secret passageways to a towering bed of sta...

When a poor miller's son is left a cat by his father, he wonders how he will ever make any money. Perhaps the cat can help him?

All Tom has in the world is his pet cat, but this cat can talk - and he has a stylish taste in boots. Thanks to Cat, Tom is soon meeting the king and defeating an ogre in Charles Perrault's fantastical fairy tale, specially retold for younger children.

'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...

Legends tell how Belgarath the sorcerer and his daughter Polgara defeated the evil God Torak, imprisoning him in an endless sleep. But now a priest of Torak is racing to his God with the Orb of Aldur - racing to reawaken him. Belgarath and Polgara are on his trail.

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).

'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). In this retelling of the Rapunzel fairy tale, Rapunzel is reimagined in a city and is lock...