Pengarang: Barbara Catchpole

Pig has a huge brown plastic dog poo. (Not one of those long ones that go dry. This one’s a curly brown, wet-looking poo, with a little black plastic fly on it.) Pig thinks the poo talks to him (he d …

PIG decides his mum needs a boyfriend, so he sets her up on the Kissy Kissy Online Dating Site (‘Meet your hero – hundreds of hunky men free for the online single lady.’) When PIG invites two of them …

PIG hates needles, so he uses all his wiley skills to avoid the school vaccinations. But then comes a history lesson on the Black Death. Terrified, Pig decides he must have that injection – and quick …

PIG is late for school and he can’t find his pants – so he borrows his sister’s sparkly pink Drama Diva panties. Things get difficult when he has to do PE and he is found in the teacher’s toilet wear …

PIG has fallen in love. Tiffany chews gum and is in the bottom Maths set, but she’s a real girl! To impress her, Pig agrees to make a speech at a school assembly, in front of the Mayor and all the pa …

PIG wants to be in the school football team, but there is one problem: he is completely rubbish at football. Sir says Pig will never ever play for the team. When the team’s goalie is injured (looking …

When Raj spots Bob (Pig’s mum’s boyfriend) kissing Tish (the one with the pink hair) outside the spare gold shop, Raj has to tell Pig. Pig is outraged. How could Bob do this to Mum? So Pig hatches a …

Pig finally gets to go on his surfing holiday with the school. (He got the holiday because he was in the Head Teacher’s Secret Toilet without asking.) While Pig is away, Suki tells him that he has lo …

Pig is fed up with getting picked on – especially by that Dean Gosnall, who always wants a fight. Pig decides that it’s his red hair that’s the problem, so Gran and Suki decide to help him change its …

There’s a school quiz against The Academy (the posh school) and it’s going to be on TV! Raj persuades Pig to join the team, but the problem is that Pig doesn’t know anything. So on the big day it’s R …

When Pig’s mum tells him that she wants to get a divorce from his dad, Pig gets really angry. At school he misbehaves in class (saying ‘Baa baa’ to Mr. Lamb!) and has to stay in after school. It’s a …

Harry the hamster is ill, so Mum and Pig take him to the vet. That cost thirty quid. Then Suki gets her hand stuck down the drain on the High Street and they have to call the fire brigade to get her …

It’s Pig’s birthday party. It’s not actually his birthday – that was ages ago, but still, a party’s a party! Even better, Pig’s real dad has promised to turn up. Will his dad get there in time? Well, …

Pig and his best friend Raj decide that they don’t actually need to go to school every day. Going for just a few days in a week is enough. So one day they take the day off school and decide to watch …

Pig’s class at school all have to bring in something they don’t use anymore. It all starts well (even though Pig takes in his mum’s wedding ring), but then things go wrong and Pig accuses Raj of some …

When Pig’s best friend Raj is suddenly taken ill, Pig has to get him to hospital very, very quickly. With the help of a wheelbarrow, an empty bus lane and a few friends and family, Pig manages it – a …

Pig has never really had a pet – except for a hamster, nits and a verruca called Vincent. So when Pig and Raj find a cat tied up in a shopping bag, Pig decides to keep it – even though it is probably …

Pig’s mum tells him she wants to divorce his dad to be with her new man Bob. Pig doesn’t like this – he needs his dad, not Bob – so he decides to run away to Spain to live with his real dad! He think …

Ben’s parents treat him like a kid – so after a huge argument, he decides to leave home. He moves into a very cheap old flat that smells of damp and cabbage. Soon Ben and his two flatmates find hidde …

The ‘Pink Click’ are the meanest girls in school. They can’t stand Feely. But that’s OK – Feely can’t stand them, either. When Feely starts a diary, she hopes it will do some magic for her and get ba …

Feely decides to stand for election as class ‘Prime Minister’. But Saffron wants to be Prime Minister too, so they have an election campaign and the class must vote. Can Feely beat Saffron and become …

Feely’s parents are acting very strangely. They are even talking to each other (not just saying stuff). What is going on? Hannah says they must be getting a divorce. Can that be true? What would happ …

Feely’s mum is a counsellor – she helps sad and angry people with their problems. When she takes Feely to work one day (it’s ‘take your daughter to work day’), Feely decides that she could do this jo …

Feely gets to look after the class goldfish, Henry the First, during half term. The Pink Click say it’s a mistake and Feely shouldn’t be allowed to look after any animal – not ever! Will Saffron be p …

Feely has to write a school report about life in the 1950s. Everyone starts to interview their grannies and grandads, but Feely doesn’t have her own old person to talk to. So how can she write a repo …

Taylor has had some disastrous boyfriends. There was the smelly computer geek who wrote code all day, and there was the one who only wore Liverpool shirts and was football-mad. But then Taylor meets …

‘Are you out of your tiny looney-tunes mind?’ That’s what Gina’s sister says when she finds out that Gina is chatting online with a boy she doesn’t know. But Gina loves talking to Chatboy1 – he makes …

Hamlet is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeares key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The pl …

Macbeth is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeare’s key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling readers. The …

Romeo and Juliet is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeare’s key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggling read …

PIG Set 1 Workbook 1 is a photocopiable workbook designed to develop literacy skills. Set 1 Workbook 1 accompanies the three books PIG and the Talking Poo, PIG and the Fancy Pants and PIG and the Lon …

PIG Set 1 Workbook 2 is a photocopiable workbook designed to develop literacy skills. Set 1 Workbook 2 accompanies the three titles PIG gets the Black Death (nearly), PIG Plays Cupid and PIG Saves th …

PIG Set 2 Workbook 1 is a photocopiable workbook designed to develop literacy skills. Set 1 Workbook 2 accompanies the three titles PIG and the Ice-Cream Cake, Pig Skives off School and Pig is a Blue …

PIG Set 2 Workbook 2 is a photocopiable workbook designed to develop literacy skills. Set 1 Workbook 2 accompanies the three titles Superpig!, Pig and the Baldy Cat and Pig Leaves Home (for a bit). T …

Thunderbolts is a series of levelled reading books covering popular non-fiction topics, with particular appeal to older readers. Each book contains a non-fiction section followed by a fiction story o …

An hilarious and unexpectedly moving story of two generations coming to terms with life. Teenager Tod has a few issues in his life, not least an inability to focus on anything that’s … well … imp …

The Full Flight series of reading books are for children and young adults aged 8 to 14 and over who are struggling to read. Each book has been carefully written for those with a reading age of approx …

Dark Reads have short chapters and very low word counts of roughly 600 each. These short, gripping stories are punctuated on every other page with bold, two-tone illustrations, which have a graphic n …

Ben’s dog Biff is not a bad dog. Biff loves mud. He is a Mad Pug. The Mad Pug is a low level phonics reading book. Beautifully illustrated throughout, this 83-word fiction story features a fully deco …

London detective Matt Blake remembers his last case. Little did he know the horrors he would find under the light of the blood moon. Dark Reads are very short novels of just 600 words, written specif …

Ben was born deaf, but this has never stopped him being the best deputy sheriff in the Wild West. One day the ‘Hole in The Wall Gang’ stroll into town and Ben must use all of his skills if he wants t …

Meet Jim – who is ‘all goo’ – in this quirky low-level phonics reader. Part of Reading Stars Phonics – our structured programme of 133 fully decodable phonics readers to support the teaching of phoni …

A Midsummer Night’s Dream is one of a series of introductions to Shakespeares key plays. It is perfect as an introduction before studying the play, for revision purposes and for reluctant and struggl …