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.

Independent Reading Yellow stories are perfect for children aged 4+ who are reading at book band 3 (Yellow) in classroom reading lessons.

In this story, Sid the dog is desperate to find his stick, but he keeps getting it wrong. Then he finds another dog at the end of his stick… can they be friends?

Katie Dale

Katie Dale had her first poem ‘The Fate of The School Hamster’ published in The Cadbury’s Book of Children’s Poetry, aged 8 and hasn’t stopped writing since. On graduating, she went travelling through South-East Asia – only to discover whilst in a Vietnam internet cafe that she was a winner of the SCBWI 2008 Undiscovered Voices competition.

Charlie Alder

Charlie Alder is particularly well-known for her young and tween girl book cover design and illustrations. Before that, she was Art Director for a popular women’s weekly magazine.