Item category 1: Beginner read

Liko is excited to meet her very first partner Pokémon, Sprigatito. It's so cute! But the pair have trouble bonding. When a suspicious stranger shows up looking for Liko, can she and Sprigatito start working together to get away from trouble?

The prince is sure he will always be a beast after he is cursed by a witch. Then he meets Beauty.

Ned is a bee who likes to just bumble about, so when the Great Flying Bee competition comes to town, Ned is happy to just watch. But things may not go as planned.

Piggie is devastated when a big guy takes the ball she has been playing with. Gerald is big too - but is he big enough to help his best friend?

A tortoise wants to join their friends at a tea party, but realise their chair is too high! They try to reach the chair but have no luck. So Tortoise's friends come up with a new idea instead.

JoJo and Katie Woo are spending a fall day at the apple orchard! The two friends are having a contest to see who will find the biggest, reddest apple. Along the way, they discover what happens to the apples that have fallen and started to rot. Do they go to waste or are they still a tasty treat f...

A dog is searching for her buried bone, but she can't remember where she buried it! She digs all around to try and find it but has no luck and feels sad. Her owner notices and buys her a new bone. As the dog goes to bury it, she finds her old bone!

Fergus the fox just wants to be friends with all the farm animals, but they are scared of him! Fergus comes up with a plan to disguise himself, but will he be discovered?

When Felix sees the Pied Piper play his pipe to get rid of the rats, he is amazed. And then he hears the pipes again... 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 U...

Kay runs away when a piece of magic glass gets stuck in his eye. But his best friend Gerda is determined to rescue him.