Reading Champion: Matooke

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). This book is aimed at Independent Reading Book Band White 10, for readers aged from 5-7 years.

Eddie is a city boy from Kampala, but it's the school holidays so he's off for a visit with his Auntie and cousin in the Ugandan countryside. The hard work and all the nature are a bit hard for him to get used to at first, but, in the end, their patient teaching and his Auntie's delicious matooke win him over.

Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.

Fantastic, original 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.

Tracy Turner-Jones (Author)

Tracy is a writer, foster parent and administrator in no particular order. She's had two children's short stories published, won the Manchester Women's Comedy sketch prize and self-published a fantasy story: Arabi. Matooke was her first published picture book. She lives in London but daydreams about a desk with a view and more time to write.

reminac kc (Illustrator)

My name is katula cranimmer. I am 26 years old. I am a digital illustrator working and living in Uganda.

Right from childhood, I always loved art. I loved to draw but I didn't really decide to be an artist until the age of 18 when I started reading comic books. I was so taken in by the power of the art and stories in the comic books I read that I could think of nothing else to do with my life. It was right there in those comic book pages that I found my passion, my dream, my goal something worth living and dying for. I wanted to become a professional illustrator and tell heart-felt stories that mean something to people with my Art.

I graduated in 2016 in Industrial Art and Design from Makerere University, Uganda and I am currently making character building comic books and story books for Reminac Comics under Reminac Studios.

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). This book is aimed at Independent Reading Book Band White 10, for readers aged from 5-7 years. Eddie is a city boy from Kampala, but it's the school holidays so he's off for a visit with his Auntie and cousin in the Ugandan countryside. The hard work and all the nature are a bit hard for him to get used to at first, but, in the end, their patient teaching and his Auntie's delicious matooke win him over.Reading Champion offers independent reading books for children to practise and reinforce their developing reading skills.Fantastic, original 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.

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