John Haslam – illustratör

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)In this story, Wolf tries to get into the house of seven little goats while their mother is out. Can he fool them into letting him in? Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic 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. This retelling of the original traditional tale by the Brothers Grimm is suitable for children aged 5-7, or those reading at book band Orange.

Discover how today's amazing inventions and technologies work while developing your Scratch coding skills.Recreate the technology that lives in transport technology with code. Learn about self-driving cars, create a hoverboard game, program a drone to deliver a package across a cityscape and much more!Each book in the Code: STEM series goes inside a different machine or technology and explains the key computer code and systems that are controlling them. Step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions of these machines on screen, and bring them to life - with code! The focus is placed on modern technologies that actually use code to work, rather than looking back at steam engines, etc. This will keep the practice of coding firmly in the contemporary. The series uses Scratch as the coding language, as this is still the most used, user-friendly and flexible in building projects, however no prior experience of Scratch is expected and each book will include an introduction to Scratch.Perfect for exploring STEAM and other high-interest topics. Great for reader 9 and up.

Discover how today's amazing inventions and technologies work while developing your coding skillsRecreate the technology that lives in space technology with code. Learn aboutgravity, create a jetpack game, program a spaceship's return to Earth and much more!Each book goes inside a different machine or technology and explains the key computer code and systems that are controlling them. Step-by-step activities teach you how to create your own versions of these machines on screen, and bring them to life - with code! The focus is placed on modern technologies that actually use code to work, rather than looking back at steam engines, etc. This will keep the practice of coding firmly in the contemporary. The series uses Scratch as the coding language, as this is still the most used, user-friendly and flexible in building projects, however no prior experience of Scratch is expected and each book will include an introduction to Scratch.Perfect for exploring STEAM and other high-interest topics. Great for reader 9 and up.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, spot a man at the beach digging around the rocks using some curious looking tools. On closer inspection, the friends uncover what the man was looking at - a bone set in stone. Join the Detective gang as they meet a vet and palaeontologist, who will help them discover more about evolution, fossils and scientific research.Interactive elements:- Search and find clues in the illustrations- Help the kids complete the full skeleton by placing the bones in the right place- Gather crucial information from information panels about palaeontology and fossils- Match the fossil to the correct animal skeleton- Help the palaeontologist name the creatureThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, have entered an inter-school quiz competition. They need to study and prepare if they want to win. They meet the new librarian, who they soon find out is a robot powered by Artificial Intelligence! But something is wrong with her code...Join the detectives as they learn how AI works. With the help of the school's IT technician, they'll soon figure out how to fix the librarian's code.Featured interactive elements:- Spot the glitch in the AI's neural network- Spot the bug in the AI's code and correct it- Gather crucial information from fact panels about how AI worksThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are having a sleepover in the treehouse when they notice a mysterious light coming from Isla's neighbour's garden. It looks like some of the plants are glowing! But how can this be?Join the Detective gang as they meet a botanist and a geneticist, who will help them discover more about plants, genes and DNA.Featured interactive elements:- Search and find clues in the illustrations- Gather crucial information from info panels about genetics and bioluminescence- Work out how to trick a snowdrop into flowering early and why roses have thorns- Help the geneticist correctly reorder the steps in her diagramThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, have won a contest and the prize is to visit the new deep-sea lab. When they get there they are enlisted by a marine biologist to help count the population of isopods in an are of the sea floor. When they give the scientist their numbers, she tells them that it is not what she expected. The isopod population has drastically declined since the last time they were counted a week ago. What has happened? She explains to them that something may have disrupted the ecosystem and impacted food chains. As the kids go back into the submersible to take a closer look, they discover an unexpected predator and its presence may be due to the eruption of an underwater volcano heating up the sea floor.Featured interactive elements:Looking for clues in the illustrationsUnderstanding instruments used for deep sea explorationGathering crucial information from fact panels about ecosystems in the ocean depthsThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, are excited when they see their school installing solar panels and a wind turbine. A few days later, on a sunny but windy day, the power goes out halfway through a science lesson. The kids decide to investigate why the solar panels and wind turbine are failing to provide the school with the electricity they should be generating.With the help of Isla's mum, Luan, an engineer the four friends learn how solar and wind energy works. The children (and reader) uncover what has gone wrong and what is preventing the solar panels and wind turbine from doing what they are supposed to do. The story ends with the children figuring the fixes needed and telling their teacher.Featured interactive elements:Looking for clues in the illustrationsIdentifying tree species from a leafGathering crucial information from fact panels about how solar panels andwind turibines workThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigating skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Amelia, Mohammad and Sam, have won a contest and the prize is to visit the new deep-sea lab. When they get there they are enlisted by a marine biologist to help count the population of isopods in an are of the sea floor. When they give the scientist their numbers, she tells them that it is not what she expected. The isopod population has drastically declined since the last time they were counted a week ago. What has happened? She explains to them that something may have disrupted the ecosystem and impacted food chains. As the kids go back into the submersible to take a closer look, they discover an unexpected predator and its presence may be due to the eruption of an underwater volcano heating up the sea floor.Featured interactive elements:Looking for clues in the illustrationsUnderstanding instruments used for deep sea explorationGathering crucial information from fact panels about ecosystems in the ocean depthsThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, the books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are on a school trip to the top of a brand-new super tall skyscraper when they notice some of the class are feeling dizzy. What could be causing this?Join the Detective gang as they meet an engineer who will help them discover more about construction and engineering. Featured interactive elements:- Search and find clues in the illustrations- Gather crucial information from info panels about earthquakes and wind pressure- Work out the correct location for each key skyscraper part - Help calculate the angle of a swaying skyscraperThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are on a school trip to the top of a brand-new super tall skyscraper when they notice some of the class are feeling dizzy. What could be causing this?Join the Detective gang as they meet an engineer who will help them discover more about construction and engineering. Featured interactive elements:- Search and find clues in the illustrations- Gather crucial information from info panels about earthquakes and wind pressure- Work out the correct location for each key skyscraper part - Help calculate the angle of a swaying skyscraperThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are visiting a theme park with Mohammed's aunt Ghazala to celebrate her new rollercoaster design when they notice posters for a ride that looks almost identical! Did someone steal Aunt Ghazala's design? Does it have something to do with that suspicious-looking man?Join the Detective gang as they work the case, and learn from a mechanical engineer how rollercoasters are constructed and what gravity has to do with it. Featured interactive elements:- Search and find clues in the illustrations- Gather crucial information from info panels about materials, gravity and forces- Work out the best design for the first rollercoaster drop- Match the labels to the correct rollercoaster sectionThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our four detectives, Farah, Isla, Mohammad and Sam, are visiting a theme park with Mohammed's aunt Ghazala to celebrate her new rollercoaster design when they notice posters for a ride that looks almost identical! Did someone steal Aunt Ghazala's design? Does it have something to do with that suspicious-looking man?Join the Detective gang as they work the case, and learn from a mechanical engineer how rollercoasters are constructed and what gravity has to do with it. Featured interactive elements:- Search and find clues in the illustrations- Gather crucial information from info panels about materials, gravity and forces- Work out the best design for the first rollercoaster drop- Match the labels to the correct rollercoaster sectionThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are at Space Camp and following a group of astronauts in training. Unfortunately their lead astronaut keeps experiencing some problems with her equipment and activities. She's the top in her class - what could be causing such trouble now?Join the Detective gang as they attempt to work out the issues at Space Camp. Can they save the day?Featured interactive elements:Looking for clues in the illustrationsComparing your weight on different planetsSpot the difference between two astronaut suitsGathering crucial information from information panels about gravity, famous space missions and spacecraftThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are visiting the local TV studio when their favourite band arrives to promote their upcoming concert! The extreme weather prediction comes in at the same time - it looks like a hurricane is approaching. The studio is hesitant to run the story - but why? Join the Detective gang as they investigate the impact of hurricanes, climate change and work to ensure people are warned in time. Can the Kid Detectives save the day?Featured interactive elements:Looking for clues in the illustrationsTracking the path of a hurricaneSpotting the incorrect items in an emergency kitGathering crucial information from information panels about weather, meteorologists and climate changeThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are visiting the local TV studio when their favourite band arrives to promote their upcoming concert! The extreme weather prediction comes in at the same time - it looks like a hurricane is approaching. The studio is hesitant to run the story - but why? Join the Detective gang as they investigate the impact of hurricanes, climate change and work to ensure people are warned in time. Can the Kid Detectives save the day?Featured interactive elements:Looking for clues in the illustrationsTracking the path of a hurricaneSpotting the incorrect items in an emergency kitGathering crucial information from information panels about weather, meteorologists and climate changeThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, these books impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.

Join a group of four kid detectives and help them find out about STEM while developing problem solving, observation and deduction, and investigation skills.Our Kid Detectives Isla, Farah, Sam and Mohammad are at Space Camp and following a group of astronauts in training. Unfortunately their lead astronaut keeps experiencing some problems with her equipment and activities. She's the top in her class - what could be causing such trouble now?Join the Detective gang as they attempt to work out the issues at Space Camp. Can they save the day?Features interactive elements, such as:- Looking for clues in the illustrations- Comparing your weight on different planets- Spot the difference between two astronaut suits- Gathering crucial information from information panels about gravity, famous space missions and spacecraftThrough interactive adventures that combine facts, brain-teasing puzzles and lively illustrations, this series impart STEM knowledge in an original way to inspire a love of the subject. The story in each book will have the reader solving puzzles, finding clues, cracking secret codes and uncovering mysteries.Perfect for aspiring detectives aged 7+.