There are two wordless stories about trucks in this comic. Both stories are based on the familiar truck characters from the Lilac Level fiction cluster, Trucktown. The only text that appears in the stories is titles, sound effects and occasionally writing in the artwork. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 4-5 (Reception) Book band: Lilac Phonics phase: 1

Each Reading Book in the Rapid Plus series is finely levelled and trialled with KS3 students, and includes: all-new content, rigorously levelled and trialled with Key Stage 3 students pre-reading pages which introduce the main characters, plots and key concepts, helping to build understanding and confidence a quiz page after each text providing opportunities for discussion and to check comprehension word and spelling activities to extend language knowledge a non-fiction section that helps to build vocabulary and offers a different reading experience.

The Dragon Princess and Yun enter the Ruby Palace of the Fire Demon who has stolen the Dragon King's magic pearl. Yun tricks the Fire Demon into dropping the pearl and the Princess sprays the Fire Demon with water. They escape and Yun receives another magic gift from the grateful Dragon King. Part of the Bug Club reading series used in over 3500 schools Helps your child develop reading fluency and confidence Suitable for children age 6-7 (Year 2) Book band: Purple A Phonics phase: 6

Genre: Signs, Labels, captions Learning Objectives: Word Recognition Strand 5: Apply phonic knowledge and skills as the prime approach to reading and spelling unfamiliar words that are not completely decodable. Language Comprehension Strand 7: Recognise the main elements that shape different texts.