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Reading Champion: The Elves and the Shoemaker

Independent Reading Purple 8

Damian Harvey, Author

Series: Reading Champion

Imprint: Franklin Watts

Publication date: January 12, 2023

Category: Educational: Reading schemes

ISBN: 9781445184128

Series: Reading Champion

Imprint: Franklin Watts

Publication date: July 14, 2022

Category: Educational: Reading schemes

ISBN: 9781445184111

In this fairy tale retelling, a poor shoemaker and his wife discover a new pair of shoes in their workshop. Each night they wake to find more and more pairs of new shoes. Who has been helping them?
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)

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 5-7 year olds or those reading book band purple 8.

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