Barrington Stoke Acorn Readers

Engage your most reluctant and struggling readers with the lowest reading age in the Barrington Stoke range, full-colour titles for primary children.

The Acorn Readers are super-short stories of 500 words or less that pack an impressive punch. A punch that offers readers all the complexity, wit, wisdom and emotional engagement of fiction at its best. A few hundred words by a top-flight storyteller – words enhanced by stunning colour artwork – can transport and delight the reader just as well as a few hundred thousand.

This books feature some of the best authors in the business – from thrills and chills to adventure and laugh-out-loud humour, there’s something for everyone with these eight fantastic stories.