This non-fiction book about animal that jump, from frogs to kangaroos, 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)

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 ability, encouraging reading for pleasure. Perfect for children aged 4-5 or reading at book band yellow 3.

Sue Graves

Sue Graves has been a freelance children’s author for more than 17 years. She has written over two hundred books for children from pre-school up to 15+ years. She writes fiction and non-fiction, plays and poetry across the age ranges.

Sue loves reading all sorts of books and is at her happiest when she has a book in her hand. She also loves painting in watercolours, playing tennis and badminton and going for long walks in the country with her husband and children.

Evelline Andrya

Evelline was born in Sumatra, Indonesia, in 1984. She grew up with mix cultures, Chinese and Javanese. She was influenced by vintage greeting cards that she found at her grandma’s drawer, comic books, vintage picture books, and animated movies. She graduated from an academy of art and design in 2006, and got her first illustration job at CosmoGirl! Indonesia magazine in 2007. Evelline started her freelance career in 2010. Since then, she has illustrated more than 35 children’s books. Her illustration style is a mix of traditional medium and digital collage. She loves how her acrylic brushstrokes create unique textures for her digital illustrations. In her spare time, Evelline loves to create paintings with acrylics and watching behind the scenes of stop motion animated movies.