Item category 1: Beginner read

Squirrel Nutkin has lost Old Brown's glasses and the owl is not happy! Will Peter and his friends help Nutkin find the missing glasses?

Jungle United are training hard at a special camp. But Lion thinks he is already brilliant and refuses to train with the others. Will he ever learn to play as part of a team? The 'Leapfrog' series is perfect for children who are reading on their own, with fun stories of no more than 180 words.

Jungle United face Amazon FC in the football final. But where are Jungle United? Their bus is stuck! Can the fans take the team's place against their fiercest opponents?

Anna is a lonely ghost. She wants someone to move into her house, but she keeps scaring them away by sneezing, as she's allergic to dust. Will anyone move in?

Grasshopper thinks Ant should stop working so hard and just enjoy the hot summer. But what will happen when the cold winter comes?

A thoughtful retelling of Aesop's fable. It's the middle of summer and while the grasshopper is enjoying himself, the ant is busy preparing for winter and when winter arrives both the ant and the grasshopper learn something about the merits of hard work.

'Ladybird Readers' is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the ...

In this series Aesop's tales are told in a simple, easy-to-read style that engages young readers. Each story explores one of life's stories providing the morals by which to live. Strikingly illustrated, these stories are entertaining for emergent readers.

This is a simple story without words, based on a traditional tale. It is summertime, and two ants are busy collecting food for the winter, while a grasshopper spends his days lazing around. When winter comes, the ants are prepared, but the grasshopper has no food. In the original tale there is ju...

Bumbling grape thief Ape is behind bars. He has a cunning scheme to escape, but things don't quite go to plan. Will he reach his base before the prison guards catch up with him?