Anne Cassidy

Ann Bryant

Hilary Robinson

Susan Gates

Margaret Nash

Jillian Powell

Andy Blackford

Penny Dolan

Deborah Nash

Damian Kelleher

Read-it! Readers... will delight children while strengthening their independent reading skills. Read-it! Readers and Read-it! Readers en Español are simple and effective ways to get the reading results you want and the quality you need. With the guidance of literacy educators and reading specialists, these series combine the elements for success in reading with entertaining stories children love. Just select the appropriate color level and language for your readers, and watch them start on the amazing road to reading.

Read It! - Readers

Sue Mason

George wants to live with exotic animals so he plans to run away to the jungle, but before he can leave home a dragonfly shows him all the exotic animals that live in his back yard.

George and the Dragonfly

Mal Peet

David Calcutt

Elspeth Graham

Sally Prue

Mick Gowar

These exciting new TreeTops Myths and Legends are guaranteed to appeal to all your junior readers - whatever their cultural background, gender or enthusiasms. These are the oldest and most enduring stories in the world, retold by leading contemporary children's authors to bring out all of theaction, drama, humour and depth of the original stories in a way that makes them as exciting and meaningful today as ever.The strand is comprised of 24 books, telling a total of around 65 traditional stories from around the world. All of the stories are fully illustrated with stunning, vibrant images. The stories are carefully levelled, making them accessible to the average 7-11 year old reader. A thought-provokingletter from the author explains something about the background of the stories and the process of writing or retelling them. The letter also encourages the reader to make links between stories in a collection - prompting a fascinating investigation of the similarities and differences between storiesthat have evolved from different cultures around the world.Free teaching notes with each pack offer suggestions on how to develop higher order comprehension and writing skills. They also provide short introductions to many of the stories and discussion points to promote meaningful speaking and listening, and reflective reading. The stories are ideal formaking strong links to other areas of curriculum.

Beowulf, Grendel and Dragon

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: The Three Little Pigs are terrified when they find out who their new neighbor is! They have met his kind before. Will they all get eaten up by the Big Bad Wolf?

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The Three Little Pigs and the New Neighbor

George is fed up with his hamster and sets off to the jungle to find himself a more interesting pet. But, before he gets very far, he meets a beautiful dragonfly, who shows him that the creatures in his own back garden are much more fun than he could have imagined.

George and the Dragon

Andy Blackford, now a middle-aged advertising executive, was a guitarist in Genesis’s support band when he was advised to give up smoking and keep fit – otherwise he would die.Having been voted the man least likely to reach 30 when he was at Oxford, he decided at 29 that running was the answer even though he’d come in second-to-last in the annual cross country race the last time he had done any running, saved only from the ultimate humiliation by a classmate with rickets. Yet he persevered, jogging nightly around London’s squalid South Circular Road in a pair of exhausted Green Flash plimsolls. A year later, he was persuaded to enter the Hambledon Hill Race in Dorset, which involved a near-vertical ascent of an Iron Age fort after two compulsory pints of scrumpy. He came last, slightly rupturing a lung. But the seed was sown. Andy ran his first marathon within the year, knocking out a respectable 3hrs 30mins over a hilly 26 mile course. At the finish, he had to be stretchered to a swimming pool and unlocked by a physiotherapist.Running on Empty is the story of one man’s devotion to a sport for which he had no natural aptitude whatsoever. It is chiselled out in twenty years of anecdotal columns commissioned by Runner’s World magazine, recording his battles with injury, his experiments with diets and equipment, and his participation in lunatic events that have had him running up the Himalayas, across the Sahara, onto the Greenland ice-cap and through the Amazonian rainforest.Andy has inspired two generations of runners, many of whom have followed his example in accepting hugely-serious challenges without ever taking them too seriously.

Andy Blackford

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