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Ann Bryant, Author
Series: Reading Champion
Imprint: Franklin Watts
Publication date: August 7, 2025
Category: English
ISBN: 9781445192789
Series: Reading Champion
Imprint: Franklin Watts
Publication date: February 27, 2025
Category: English
ISBN: 9781445192765
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 UCL Institute of Education (IOE)
In this retelling of a traditional tale from Africa, a farmer named Sam is shocked to discover a yam that talks!
Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.
Fantastic 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. This retelling of the original traditional tale is suitable for children aged 5-7, or those reading at book band Blue.
Ann has published well over a hundred books, largely children’s fiction, for ages 3 – 12, but also some music resources for primary school teachers. She loves doing school author visits and giving music workshops for teachers, and when she’s not working she likes reading, cinema, theatre, cycling, swimming, walking, going to the gym, being with family and friends. She has two daughters and lives with her husband, who does all the cooking – (result!) – in Kent.