Every day, a kind-hearted girl visits a magic well to make wishes for the people in her village. When the well dries up one day, she learns an important lesson.

It is Princess Lolly's 89th birthday and she is holding a banquet. For her birthday the cook has made the most magnificent jelly. However the jelly refuses to wobble! All the different guests try different ways of making it wobble but the jelly is stubborn; it doesn t want to be eaten. Finally the smallest guest comes up with an idea to put ice cream with the jelly. Suddenly the jelly begins shivering and quaking, then finally it wobbles.

This book is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with UCL Institute of Education (IOE) Homing Pigeons is a non-fiction text reporting on the amazing skill and history of homing pigeons. The simple sentence structure offers readers the opportunity for an independent reading experience with the support of the illustrations. Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills. This early non-fiction text is 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.