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 assembling their parts … until Alfie discovers how to solve the problem. If they work as a team, they can build the best castle ever!

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.

Jackie Walter

Jackie Walter has written and edited many books for children. She never gets tired of listening to and telling a good story. Jackie lives in Cornwall with her husband and young daughters.

David Arumi

David Arumi was born in Barcelona in 1983. His fondness for drawing and art led him to study Art Gràfic at Escola Joso in Barcelona.

He completed his postgraduate studies on illustration for children’s publications and creative illustration at Escola Eina.
Soon after he finished his illustration book in 2006, different Spanish publishers began to approach him.

Since then, David has been working as a freelance illustrator for several publishers, magazines and advertising agencies.
He usually works digitally, drawing and painting directly on the screen with his Wacom Cintiq.

He can gladly say that his hobby has become his job and he hopes that it will last forever.