Author(s): Jackie Walter; Emma Latham (Illustrator)

Children & Young Adult

When an acorn drops on the head of Chicken Licken, he is sure the sky is falling! He sets off to the palace to tell the king.

This story is part of Reading Champion, a series carefully linked to book bands to encourage independent reading skills, developed with Dr Sue Bodman and Glen Franklin of UCL Institute of Education (IOE)

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.