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Enter a prehistoric world with cave-boy Glog in this innovative storybook designed to boost reader confidence.
Cave-boy Glog is accidentally left behind when his tribe move to new hunting grounds – and things look bleak. Glog will have to do the best he can to fend for himself until they come to find him. Along the way, he encounters a ferocious wolf and gathers some new friends. He draws them on the cave wall for company, but it’s not the same as his own tribe. Will Glog’s family come back for him?

A beautiful, sensitively told story of love and loss and of a special relationship between grandfather and grandson.

Jake loves playing in Grandad’s workshop. One autumn day, Grandad teaches Jake how to chisel his name in a piece of wood, and afterwards they go to the park. Grandad shows Jake the tree that grew from an acorn he planted when he was a boy. Jake goes off to buy ice-creams and returns to find Grandad on the ground. The ambulance arrives. Mum and Jake go home without Grandad…Jake grieves for his grandfather all winter.

Featuring Handa, star of “Handa’s Hen” and “Handa’s Surprise”, this innovative storybook contains three linked stories and is designed to build reader confidence. Join the ever-popular Handa, a young African girl living in a Kenyan tribe, as she goes about her everyday life, delivering fruit to her village, hunting for her Grandma’s black hen with her friend, Akeyo and encountering a troublesome goat. The perfect first step into fiction.

An early reader with 3 times the birthday surprises!
Jo, Amy and Jess always look forward to their birthday: three cakes, three lots of presents, three times the fun! But choosing what to buy for each other is a lot harder than they thought.

• The perfect first step into fiction — Three short stories to build reading confidence.
• A new book from a much loved Australian author!

A humorous and touching set of three illustrated, linked stories about a young boy who faces up to his fear of flying
When Mum and Dad want to go on holiday, Leon doesn’t want to go to any of the places they suggest. When his family are invited to visit his new baby cousin in Spain, Leon doesn’t want to go there either. Aeroplanes are so big and loud – and how do they stay in the air? But when baby Jorge comes to stay, he doesn’t mind flying one bit – and he’s only one! Leon realises that at six and three quarters, it’s time to spread his wings.

This book lets you join Little Witch and her friend Billy Wicked for three fun stories full of word plays, set in a magical land. Little Witch’s favourite things are broom races with her best friend Billy Wicked and lemon-and-slime ice-cream with crunchy spider sprinkles. She would love to eat marshmallows for breakfast too, but she’s stuck with toadflakes. Little Witch doesn’t mean to get into mischief. Somehow though, she always does. This is a charming early reader with valuable themes of friendship, politeness, tolerance and magic.

Mia’s Uncle Robbie is amazing. He knows so many clever tricks, like how to produce an egg from Mia’s ear or how to make a silver ball float through the air. But one day he loses his magic powers – and it’s up to Mia to help him get back…

The perfect first step into fiction.

Join Mr Tripp and Room Five for three great stories about an escaped rat, a surprise birthday party and an itchy insect invasion.
Room Five’s teacher, Mr Tripp, is good at telling jokes, loves riddles and is great at using his nose. When a student’s pet rat escapes from its cage, it’s up to Mr Tripp to be brave, and to smell it out! Three fun and engaging stories which will have early readers eagerly turning the page for more adventures.