Worm is fed up with earth for lunch and wants something more exciting. He tries eating grass, bark and even a leaf on the advice of various animal friends - and almost becomes lunch himself when a hungry bird appears

- Green/ Band 5 books offer early readers patterned language and varied characters.

- Text type - Playscript.

- Instructions for putting on the play are on pages 22 and 23 to encourage children to discuss the script.

-Curriculum links - Science: Plants and animals in the local environment.

- This book has been levelled for Reading Recovery.

Read the fantasy story by Julia Donaldson about a mermaid and a greedy octopus, filled with colourful illustrations.

- Blue/ Band 4 books offer longer, repeated patterns with sequential events and integrated literary and natural language.

- Text type - A fantasy story.

- The illustrations on pages 14 and 15 allow children to retell the story in their own words.

- Curriculum links - Art: Mother nature, designer; Citizenship: Choices

Der groe Wald ist voller Gefahren. Da ist es gut, wenn man einen starken Freund hat. Und wenn man keinen hat, erfindet man sich eben einen.

'A Squash and a Squeeze' is a rhyming fable that tells of a little old lady who thinks her home is too small. A wise man tells her to take in a succession of animals so that it really is a squash in the house

Can butterfly help little monkey find his mum? Yes, but only after a lot of trial and error as butterfly misunderstands monkey's descriptions and leads him to all kinds of unsuitable animals.

Delightful story and song now available in CD format!

Jumbeelia, a girl giant, loves the story of the iggly plop who climbed the bimblestonk and was chased back down by a giant. So she grows her own bimblestonk and climbs down it - there she finds her own world of iggly plops.

Four bestselling Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler titles available together on one brilliant CD!

This Early Reader edition of THE SCARECROWS' WEDDING contains the complete classic story and pictures, in a pocket-book format, and with an extra-clear font and layout, to support children who are gaining confidence in reading. A fabulous love story, full of drama, humour and originality.