Fiction 5+

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). Fantastic, original stories are accompanied by engaging artwork and a reading activity. Ea...

'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...

Bella and Bob must find a place to sleep. Will they find the best sleep spot?

Will has the best stick. But then he sees a better stick.

In this twist on a traditional tale, a woman makes a pancake for the hungry children, but the pancake is hungry too, and it wants to eat them!

Owl, Otter, and their friends are back and this time, they're holding an epic talent show! It's free to perform, but £2 to watch. With lots of woodland friends coming to support them, Owl and Otter will need to draw on their addition and subtraction skills to make sure everyone gets their change,...

Spring has arrived in Alaska, and a brown bear is waking up. She was alone when she fell asleep at the start of winter; now she is climbing out of her den with two cubs. Follow them as they discover how to survive in the wilderness, from climbing trees to catching salmon, as their mother teaches ...

Best friends Bumble and Snug are Bugbops - little monsters filled with big feelings! Join them on imaginative comic adventures while they encounter pirates, unicorns, ghosts and lots of other magical creatures, learning about the world outside and inside along the way. Bumble and Snug are going t...

Bumble and Snug are excited to show off their magic tricks at the Bugbopolis Talent Show together with their new friend, a little ghost. They'll need to practise first, from pulling rabbits out of a hat to picking the right cards and levitating. There's just one problem, the ghost turns invisible...

After becoming class president, Camila makes some decisions that upset some of her classmates. She tells Mr Grizley that she can't be class president, but he doesn't let her give up. Will Camila find a way to be a good leader to her class?