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Jackie Walter
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Reading Champion: The Cat and the Cradle
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…
Reading Champion: Sinbad and the Monkeys
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…
Reading Champion: The Farmer and the Ogre
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…
Reading Champion: The Magic Kettle
In this Japanese traditional tale, a tinker buys a kettle from an old man - a magic kettle which can change both itself and his…
Reading Champion: How Koala Got a Stumpy Tail
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…
Reading Champion: How Kangaroo Got Her Pouch
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…
Reading Champion: Homing Pigeons
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education…
Reading Champion: My Family Tree
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…
Reading Champion: All About Teeth
This non-fiction text is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman…
Reading Champion: Day and Night
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education…
Reading Champion: The Apple Tree
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…
Reading Champion: Make a Rocket
A non-fiction reader about following intructions to make a rocket from household objects. This text is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to…
Reading Champion: Tidy-up Time
Follow this instructional text about how to tidy up in the classroom! This non-fiction text is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to…
Reading Champion: Wheels
This non-fiction text explores different objects and vehicles with wheels. This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to…
Reading Champion: Animals That Fly
This non-fiction text explores different animals that fly. The book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent…
Reading Champion: Circles
Circles is a non-fiction graded reading book about spotting circles in everyday shapes aorund the home. This book is part of Reading Champion, a series…
Reading Champion: My Pet Dog
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education…
Reading Champion: Seasons
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education…
Reading Champion: Living in a Tree
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education…
Reading Champion: Make a Splash
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education…
Reading Champion: The Weather Today
This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education…
Reading Champion: Chicken Licken
When an acorn drops on the head of Chicken Licken, he is sure the sky is falling. He sets off to tell the king all…
Reading Champion: Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood is off to visit her grandmother, but the forest is full of danger ... This story is part of Reading Champion,…
Reading Champion: The Gingerbread Man
A little old lady bakes a gingerbread man. But this little man does NOT want to be eaten, and he runs away as fast as…
Reading Champion: The Lost Bear
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…
Reading Champion: Alfie's Castle
When Alfie gets a brick castle for his birthday, he can't wait to get started building it! But Mum, Dad and Grandad all have trouble…
Reading Champion: Ella's School Trip
Ella is nervous about her first school trip - to a museum. Where will she sit? Where will she have lunch? There are so many…
Reading Champion: Evan's Rocket
Evan really wants to buy the rocket he sees in the shop window, but he needs to save up for it first! This story is…
Reading Champion: Cam's Kite
When Cam and Dad take a kite to the field, it flies up high... but when the kite gets stuck in the tree, Dad has…
Reading Champion: Bug Hotel
The children at school have an exciting task today - they're making a bug hotel! The minibeasts will be very happy when the children have…
Reading Champion: Bounce, Bounce, Bounce!
Get the whole family bouncing with this adorable tale of joining in the fun. It's bouncing time! Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children…
Reading Champion: Max is Cooking
What is Max cooking, out there in the mud kitchen? Read along and join his mess-making fun! Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children…
Reading Champion: I Don't Like Chocolate
Everyone likes different foods - even animals! This funny book will have young readers considering their food choices, laughing all the while. Reading Champion offers…
Reading Champion: Where is Bella?
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…
My Dad's in Prison
A sensitive and moving account of having a parent in prison, written from a child's point of view Dad's gone away for a while, but…
My First Maths: What Size Is It?
What Shape Is It? looks at different shapes using objects we can spot in our environment. It includes a first look at angles, 3D shapes…
My First Maths: Sorting and Sets
Sorting and Sets looks at how we group things together by looking at their similarities and differences. It also encourages children to consider why this…
My First Maths: Count Them Up!
Count Them Up! looks at how we use numbers and provides practical and fun examples of addition, subtraction, division and multiplication, encouraging children to tackle…
Family Days Out: Picnic at the Park
Logan has a new stepfamily. His dad has moved in with Emily and Freya's mum. They are all spending the weekend together but Logan would…
Family Days Out: The Seaside Trip
Charlie and Jasmine's two dads have planned a day out at the seaside and they can't wait. But their little brother Max wants to go…
Family Days Out: The Museum
Isla's mum has planned a surprise day at the museum but Isla wishes she could see her friend instead. But there's lots to do at…
Family Days Out: The Bike Ride
Ben is excited when his mums suggest a family day out on their bikes, but his sister Milly thinks it will boring. The day gets…
Reading Champion: The Bunk Bed
In this story, Freddie and Billy are getting bunk beds. They are very excited but just cannot agree on which bunk each should have. Luckily,…
Reading Champion: Poppy's Project
In this story, Poppy has a project to do for school. She has some great ideas, but everything keeps going wrong. Luckily, Mum and Dad…
Reading Champion: Merlin the Mouse
When Mia goes off to school she leaves cat in charge of her pet mouse, Merlin. But as soon as Mia goes out, Merlin escapes…
Reading Champion: The Toy Shop Train
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…
Reading Champion: Tap, Tap
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…
My First Maths: What Shape Is It?
What Shape Is It? looks at different shapes and encourages children to spot them in the environment. It introduces language for discussing shapes, for example…
Reading Champion: Mum Sees Rat
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…
Must Know Stories: Level 1: The Lion and the Mouse
When Mouse wakes up Lion, Lion is about to eat him up! But Mouse convinces Lion to let him go... will Mouse be able to…
Must Know Stories: Level 2: The Ugly Duckling
When the biggest egg finally hatches, Mother Duck is in for a surprise. This duckling does not look like the others, but she loves him…
Must Know Stories: Level 2: The Princess and the Pea
The prince must find a wife - but he just cannot find a real princess to marry. Then a dirty, wet and smelly girl arrives…
Must Know Stories: Level 1: The Hare and the Tortoise
When Tortoise challenges Hare to a race, Hare is so sure he will win that he stops for a little nap. Will Tortoise be able…
Must Know Stories: Level 1: The Ants and the Grasshopper
Grasshopper lazes around, singing in the summer sunshine and laughing at the hardworking ants. He's far too busy to collect food for the winter. But…
Must Know Stories: Level 1: The Magic Porridge Pot
When a poor girl gets a magic porridge pot, she is thrilled - she will never be hungry again! Then the little porridge pot begins…
Must Know Stories: Level 1: Chicken Licken
"The sky is falling in!" That's what silly young Chicken Licken thinks when an acorn falls on her head. She rushes off to tell the…
Must Know Stories: Level 1: The Enormous Turnip
The farmer has grown the most enormous turnip in the world! Will he and his friends ever be able to pull it out of the…