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.

Mingmei Yip

Mingmei Yip has written and illustrated several children’s books on Chinese folktales and is also an accomplished novelist for adults. She grew up in Hong Kong, studied in Paris, where she received her Ph.D, and now lives in New York City.