Children's / Teenage fiction: Traditional stories

Lana loves stories. Especially the ones she and her brother, Harrison, share in their make-believe games. But when Harrison decides he's too grown-up to play with Lana she finds herself feeling lonely. Until something magical happens. Hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, Lana discovers ...

Lana loves stories. Especially the ones she and her brother, Harrison, share in their make-believe games. But when Harrison decides he's too grown-up to play with Lana she finds herself feeling lonely. Until something magical happens. Hidden in the strange new supermarket in town, Lana discovers ...

If Hercules Braver is going to survive his new secondary school, he has to live up to his name, fast. He needs to become strong and tanned and popular, like a Greek hero. Not weak and pale and unpopular, like a Greek yoghurt. But his bid for popularity ends up saddling him with a set of impossibl...

'Reading Champion' offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. 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 ability, encouraging r...

Dick Whittington goes to London to make his fortune, but gets a cat! What happens when Dick gives his cat to a wealthy man?

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 story, the tale of Dick Whittington is reimagined in Patna, India and Dick enlists...

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 artwork and a reading activity. Each book has been caref...

It's just an ordinary day at Mother Goose's Academy. There's Miss Good Fairy teaching the Three Little Pigs, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella to read and write - while Miss Bad Fairy is inciting the Ugly Sisters, the Big Bad Wolf, Wicked Stepmother, Wicked Witch and Jealous Queen to gob...

When Dad loses his car keys, toddler Mary suspects that they have ended up down the back of the chair, so Dad begins to search. But, what an odd assortments of objects are living down the back of the chair! This rhyming story is packed with fun and imagination, featuring dragons, pirates, treasur...

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). This traditional tale tells the story behind the Chinese proverb 'Draw the dragons, dot th...