This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

Flamingos is a non-fiction text reporting on flamingos, their diet and habitat. The simple sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for an independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations.

Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.

This early non-fiction text is 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.

Sarah Snashall

Sarah Snashall is an experienced professional writer, and has written many books on a wide range of topics.

Bethany Lord

Bethany Lord is a freelance Illustrator based in south west London. She studied Illustration in Bournemouth and most recently an MA at Kingston University. Her work explores travel, lifestyle and the world through bold digital colour palettes and different layering techniques to create depth and detail. Her latest work explores different locations around the world, including the Mediterranean and maps of her favourite cities across the USA.