Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.

Fantastic, original stories are 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.

Independent Reading Yellow stories are perfect for children aged 4+ who are reading at book band 3 (Yellow) in classroom reading lessons.

In this story, the family is on a train ride and the children are disappointed not to be able to get off and do all the things they can see from the window. But when they arrive at the seaside, they will be able to do everything!

This book is part of a book series called Reading Champion .

This book is at Book Band Yellow. Books at this level present children with new vocabulary. The amount of words per page has slightly increased, with one new word for every twenty familiar words. Non-fiction titles at this level build on children's interests and encourage discussion around high-quality photographs. Yellow banded books are usually around 15 pages long, with either 1 or 2 sentences per page. Pupil Targets: (i) retell a story from memory, (ii) read a book without pointing at the words, unless they get stuck, (iii) blend phonemes together to understand a word, e. g. d-o-g, (iv) use punctuation, such as speech marks and question marks, (v) notice and correct some of their mistakes, (vi) sometimes, they can work out what is going to happen next in a story.

This book has been graded for interest at 3-5 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 24 pages in this book. This book was published 2018 by Hachette Children's Group .

ELIZABETH DALE studied physics and worked for many years in the health service. After her three daughters were born, she was re-introduced to children's books. Elizabeth lives in rural West Sussex. She has had over 1600 stories (teenage and adult) published all over the world, and has children's books published for Bloomsbury, Egmont, Andersen, Simon and Schuster and others. Christina Goodings is the pseudonym of an in-house author. Amanda Gulliver studied illustration and graphics at Redruth College of Art. She designed hundreds of children's books before deciding to illustrate them. Amanda loves using collage, paint and digital techniques in her artwork and has illustrated many books for very young children.