This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. In this Purple-B level Pete's Pet Shop book: The wilful princess wants a unicorn, so her father, the king, asks Pete to find one. Pete advertises but is not fooled by a trickster who tries to sell him a donkey. Sally takes her unicorn to the princess. The unicorn is not impressed with the princess's tantrums, so Sally teaches her how to look after it and how to become a real friend.

Based on the CBBC TV series, Alphablocks is great for encouraging early readers. This pack contains 4 fiction books - 'Up in a Tree', 'I Will Amaze You!', 'Easy-Peasy!' and 'I Spy'. Suitable for children age 4-6. Bug Club Phonics is a Department for Education-approved phonics teaching programme that gives children a strong foundation in phonics. It uses research-based teaching methods, proven to work. All books are 100% decodable to help today's little readers get started on their journey to reading success. Bug Club Phonics books are ideal for use at home and are a great way to help your child take their first steps towards 'cracking the code' which will enable them to learn to read and spell. Helpful notes on the inside front cover of each book highlight tricky words and give you ideas for before and during reading, and the inside back covers include ideas for delving deeper after reading to check understanding. The packs are matched to the phonics phases children are taught in school by term, from nursery to Year 1: Reception, term 1: phase 2 Reception, term 2: phase 3 Reception, term 3: phase 4 Year 1, term 1: Phase 5 Year 1, term 2: Phase 5/6 Year 1, term 3: Phase 6

This book offers useful information about how our bodies need different sorts of bacteria to function properly. Practical tips are given on how to keep healthy. 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: White B Phonics phase: 6

These Big Books introduce a variety of text types to learners. The Big Books include stories, simple factual texts, rhymes, riddles, jokes and graphic texts. It has been developed to introduce a variety of text formats. The level of difficulty in the Big Books increase – the first books have more repetitive texts and it becomes more difficult while stimulating the learner’s increasing visual literacy and language level. The books are suited to the Grade 2 learners’ level of development, frame of reference and humour. This book is suited to the topic in the Home Language (and Life Skills) Learner’s Book and Teacher’s Guide. This book can be used in more than one reading lesson (as described in the Teacher’s Guide). The animals in the aquarium see a child with round legs visiting the aquarium. They've never seen a child with round legs.

Comet Street Kids reading books follow the adventures of Rav, Asha, Tess and Finn, four of the residents of Comet Street. There are 144 exciting stories in the series that children won't be able to put down. The Newton Primary School is having a talent show, but what will Finn, Tess, Rav and Asha perform? They come up with a great idea, but then disaster strikes the star of their show... Will the Comet Street Kids be able to put on their performance, and who will win the show? Reading age: 6-7 years

The big books suit the learner's stage of development, life experiences and field of interest; complement and enrich the topics chosen for home language; contain a wide variety of text types, e.g stories, factual texts, rhymes, riddles; are illustrated so that visual literacy is promoted; contain removable pages with resources for the teacher.

Excite your children and give them a firm foundation in phonics. Part of the Bug Club family, Bug Club Phonics aims to help children learn to read by the age of six in a fun and accessible way. Following the order of Letters and Sounds, the Bug Club Phonics programme matches the National Curriculum and Early Learning Goals and ensures children read from books with the sounds they know as they are learning to read. Ideal for home learning. This book looks at trucks, trams, trains and buses - where they go, what they carry and how fast they go. 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: Red B Phonics phase: 3