Collection: Children's Young Readers

This series of books combines good stories with easy reading text for children aged six to seven years and over who have just started reading alone. The series has been developed with Alison Kelly who is an expert in early reading.

When Alice reads about Christmas she realises that she and her fellow anteaters have been missing out. Why don't anteaters get Christmas presents? To find the answer, she sets off on a hazardous journey to the icy North - in search of Father Christmas.

Follow Alice and the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and join in with their madcap adventures. Part of the 'Usborne Young Reading' series, this retelling of Lewis Carroll's enduring and popular nonsensical tale is ideal for newly independent readers.

Mortimer Keene is full to bursting with madcap plans, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further! With laugh out loud illustrations, rollicking rhymes, and short chapters perfect for new readers, this third book in the series sees Mortimer Keene up to no good again with an alien ray gun ma...

Imagine if your computer game console was magic - and imagine if it transported you into the game you were playing. In this story, Ella and Kai are playing a game chasing alien ships. Suddenly they are on a shuttle and the enemy is drawing them in. Can Ella and Kai save planet Earth and get back ...

A charming series of adventures for younger readers, featuring a family of all sorts of animals that live in the farmyard behind the tumble-down barn on Mudpuddle Farm.

Three more slapstick adventures from our favourite doggy detectives, all set in the summer sun. And things are hotting up! Someone is cheating in the sandcastle competition! There's something fishy about the new cafe! But it's the alien invasion that really makes Shifty and Sam lose their cool!

Early Readers are stepping stones from picture books to reading books, perfect for building confidence in new readers and reluctant readers. Kit has an important new job; Keeper of the King's Tights. More than anything he wants to do his best, but with so many of the King's subjects in need of Ki...

A fantastic full-colour early reader that Pokémon's youngest fans have been waiting for! Ash and his mum are on holiday in the Alola region, along with Pikachu and Mimey, and having a great time. Join Ash for a new adventure, exciting challenges and of course - more Pokémon battles!