Beatriz Castro – illustratör

Can Gemma bring the old Dance Palace back to life? You (and all of Gemma's friends from her dance class) are invited to find out! (Letter-sounds featured: /s/ c(e) c(i) c(y) se ce /j/ g(e) g(i) g(y) /e/ ea)The Dance Palace is part of the Rocket Phonics teaching and learning programme from Reading Planet. Rocket Phonics ensures that every child achieves phonics success. This fully-decodable Target Practice reading book provides focused practice of a small group of letter-sounds. The book also includes useful notes and activities to support reading in school and at home as well as comprehension questions to check understanding. Reading age: 5-6.

When Skye's mum opens a hotel with her girlfriend, Skye is ready for a boring summer, stuck in the tiny flat upstairs. But when she seeks out some peace and quiet in one of the hotel rooms, Skye is shocked to find herself transported back to 1941, where she meets a boy called Charlie. Stuck in wartime London, can Skye help Charlie find his missing sister? Will Skye find her way back home? Hideaway Hotel: Race to the Shelter is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 7-8.

After her first time-travel adventure to 1941, Skye wonders if she'll be able to travel into the past again. But sure enough, Skye is transported back again - this time, to 1905! There, Skye meets Lucy and her palaeontologist mum, and goes with them to the opening of an exhibition of Dippy, the dinosaur. But when they spot something suspicious going on, will they be able to stop a thief? Hideaway Hotel: Dinosaur Drama is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 7-8 years

Skye's bored, so she decides to go to Room 14 of the hotel where she and her family live - and sure enough, she gets to time travel again, this time to 1981! It's the first London Marathon and Skye finds herself helping Davey, whose sister Emma is too nervous about running the marathon to leave the hotel bathroom. But Skye soon realises she may not have helped everyone - and in fact, she might cause the eventual winner of the marathon to miss it completely! Can Skye put things right and make sure she doesn't change history? Hideaway Hotel: Marathon Magic is part of the Reading Planet Cosmos range of books from Hodder Education. Cosmos provides a vibrant collection of fiction and non-fiction books that will widen children's reading horizons. Reading Planet books have been carefully levelled to support children in becoming fluent and confident readers. Each book features useful notes and questions to support reading at home and develop comprehension skills. Reading age: 8-9 years.