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)

Mum and Dad want to go camping, but everything keeps going wrong, and Nish isn’t keen on it … will they go camping after all?

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 5-6 year olds or those reading book band blue 4.

Damian Harvey

Damian Harvey lives in North Wales with his lovely wife, Vicky. He has three wonderful daughters, one brilliant boy and a cat called Polly. He has written more than 130 books for primary school aged children and is busy writing more. When he isn’t writing, Damian loves visiting schools, libraries, bookshops, festivals and anywhere that will have him, where he shares stories, talks about writing and gets people excited about books and reading. You can find out more about Damian by visiting http://www.damianharvey.co.uk and follow him on Twitter @damianjharvey

Nathalia Rivera

Nathalia is a children’s book illustrator from sunny Dominican Republic, currently working from her home studio in Santo Domingo alongside her dog Mimi. She has been drawing and painting since she was a kid and still remembers her first sketchbook. She has worked as an in-house illustrator for a children’s magazine before she took the big leap to freelancing and since then she has been working on children’s publications for different editorials, companies, organizations and authors such as DaySpring, Maverick Books, SM Editorial, Lexus, Save The Children, Learning Without Tears, Anya Damiron, Betzaida Urtaza, among others.

When she’s not illustrating, she is probably baking something with lots of cinnamon in it, reading random facts, taking a walk or watching a movie for the fifth time.