Series:

Start Reading: Fairytale Jumbles

10 total works

Cover of Cinderella and the Beanstalk

Cinderella and the Beanstalk

by Hilary Robinson

Published 10 January 2013
Cinderella meets Jack and the Beanstalk in this fun rhyming text. Jack and Cinders climb the beanstalk and find a giant fairy godmother. Can she help them get to the prince's ball? Cinderella and the Beanstalk is a series of four rhyming books at Purple Band 8 of the Start Reading programme.

Cover of Snow White and The Enormous Turnip
Snow White lives with the seven dwarves, safely in the wood. She likes to spend her time planting seeds and gardening. When a turnip sticks fast in the clay, she and the dwarves need more help to pull it out. So when a kind old lady offers Snow White a piece of tart to give her energy, she accepts. But is the kind old lady all she seems?

Cover of The Elves and the Emperor

The Elves and the Emperor

by Hilary Robinson

Published 23 October 2008
Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. There was a to-do at the palace. The Emperor shoes were all worn out! He summons the old shoemaker's elves to make him some brand new slippers. But on a royal visit to the market, a boy thinks the Emperor is in his pyjamas! What can the Emperor wear instead?

Cover of Three Pigs and the Gingerbread Man
Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. They have been carefully graded to correspond to the Book Bands now widely used in schools. This enables readers to be sure that they choose books that match their own ability. The books can be shared with an adult or read independently. They promote the enjoyment of reading through reading real, satisfying stories with a beginning, a middle and an end. Three Little Pigs live in Pig Yard, in a house built out of bricks. They are busy baking a Gingerbread Man, when a wolf comes by! He is very hungry and thinks it will be easy to capture the little pigs and the Gingerbread Man. But he gets more than he bargains for...

Cover of Goldilocks and the Wolf

Goldilocks and the Wolf

by Hilary Robinson

Published 12 November 2009
Golilocks flees from the Three Bears' House, down in to Bluebell wood, and there she meets Little Red Riding Hood!

Cover of Rapunzel and the Billy Goats

Rapunzel and the Billy Goats

by Hilary Robinson

Published 10 January 2013
Rapunzel is trapped in a high tower by a wicked troll. The three billy goats want to help her but the troll won't let them cross the bridge! A handsome prince rides by on his horse. Will he be able to help the trapped princess? Fairytale Jumbles is a series of four rhyming books for Purple Band 8 of the Start Reading programme.

Cover of Start Reading: Fairytale Jumbles: Hansel & Gretel and the Ugly Duckling

Hansel and Gretel went out to collect wood for their
father, but they got lost in the forest. Then a wicked old lady trapped them in her cottage! The ugly duckling followed a trail of bread that the children left behind them. Would the ugly duckling be able to rescue Hansel and Gretel? Fairytale Jumbles is a series of four rhyming books for Purple Band 8 of the Start Reading programme.

Cover of Beauty & the Pea

Beauty & the Pea

by Hilary Robinson

Published 14 February 2013
The beast of Pea Castle was sad and lonely. He needed a kiss from a princess to turn him back into a handsome prince. One day, Beauty arrived at the castle. The beast put a pea under her matress and she could not sleep a wink. Was Beauty the princess that could break the spell? Fairytale Jumbles is a series of four rhyming books for Purple Band 8 of the Start Reading programme.

Cover of Goldilocks and the Wolf. Written by Hilary Robinson
Start Reading is a new series of highly enjoyable books for beginning readers at KS1. They have been carefully graded to correspond to the Book Bands now widely used in schools. This enables readers to be sure that they choose books that match their own ability. The books can be shared with an adult or read independently. They promote the enjoyment of reading through reading real, satisfying stories with a beginning, a middle and an end. Goldilocks ran from the Three Bears' House down into Bluebell Wood. There she meets Little Red Riding Hood. They sit down to a picnic when a wolf sits down between them. Both girls run away in fear. But the wolf just wants to be friends or does he...?

Cover of The Elves and the Emperor. Written by Hilary Robinson
The Elves are helping to make the Emperor a brand new set of clothes.