Books by Alison Hawes

Interest Age: 7 - 13 Reading Age: 6 - 7

White Wolves are engaging books that children want to pick up, at a range of different reading levels. Eighteen exciting new titles reflect the range of non-fiction texts children will come across in the real world, from guidebooks to cookbooks. They are ideal for topic libraries, and for teaching literacy skills in a curriculum context.

Interest Age: 7 - 13 Reading Age: 6 - 7

Three short exciting stories with questions at the back of the book.

This title is part of Bug Club, the first whole-school reading programme that joins books with an online reading world to teach today's children to read. Turquoise-B level: Living in a Castle ... Come inside the castle and meet the people that live here. Discover how soldiers defended the castle, what the gong farmer did, and more ... Just make sure you don't get thrown in the dungeon!

A loopy book of fun facts about rollercoasters. Find out how they started, how they were built, and where you can find the biggest, the fastest and the scariest rides of all.

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress

A non-fiction book about a group of children making a monster. Each stage of the monster-making process is shown - from the body and head, to the eyes, teeth and claws. Repetitive text asks what is being made, and then reveals the answer on the following page.

A non-fiction report about different types of weather over the course of a week. Photographs of each weather accompany illustrations of how people might act and dress in different weather conditions, while the repetitive pattern of text reports on each day's weather.

Follow a week in the life of a boy who loves to run, swim, rollerblade and trampoline, in this simple non-fiction recount, illustrated with action-packed photographs. Simple text reinforces the days of the week.

What things are thick? What things are thin? Find out in this non-fiction book.

If you dip a net into a pond, what will you see when you scoop it out? This non-fiction book supports work on nature and the world around you.

What are the differences between your pet cat, and a big cat in the wild? Find out in this photographic non-fiction book.

This non-fiction book takes us on a trip with a little girl and her dad as they go for a journey on the big, red bus.

A giant and a frippit are neighbours in the woods, but the jealous frippit dislikes the kind and popular giant. A stormy night in the woods changes everything. Illustrated by James Cotton

In this story, the sun and the wind have a contest to see who is stronger. They decide to see which of them can force a man to take off his coat. Illustrated by Bee Willey

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress

This picture story follows Granny's race against the clock. It's two o'clock and Granny has just one hour to reach her destination. As the minutes tick by, the story shows Granny's increasingly imaginative modes of transport, from skateboard to jet pack, before revealing why she is in such a hurry - it's her grandchild's birthday tea.

A patterned picture book about a family outing to the beach. The children are delighted when they spot seagulls, an ice-cream van, sand and even what they believe to be the sea, but are they at the beach yet? Lisa Smith's illustrations capture the children's excitement as they wait impatiently for their journey to end.

Have you ever wondered what happens when you drop your letter in the postbox? How does a letter get from your home town to the other side of the world in just a few days? In this book you will see what happens at every stage of a letter's journey from Jack in England to his penpal, Tama, in New Zealand.

Rapid Reading can treble the rate of reading progress