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)

When the Pied Piper returns to Hamlelin, the children are delighted. Their parents have gone safety-mad and banned all sweets, cakes and ice cream too! When the Piper offers to help in return for some of the sweets, Ash, Freddie and Mala agree. But once the parents disappear the children refuse to pay the Piper, and the children soon find life without parents is not so easy...

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.

This book is part of a book series called Reading Champion .

This book has been graded for interest at 6-8 years. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read.

There are 32 pages in this book. This is a chapter book. Publishers market early chapter books at readers aged 6-10 years. This book was published 2019 by Hachette Children's Group .

Jenny Jinks comes from a family of writers - her sister, Katie Dale and her mum, Elizabeth Dale, have penned many children's books between them and now Jenny has joined them! Alison Ritchie works as a freelance editor and writer and has published several children's books. She lives in an Oxfordshire village with her two children and dog. Hannah George grew up in a house in the woods, a stone's throw from the sea. She began storytelling through small drawings in a series of A6 sketchbooks, which came with her on adventures and holidays. She studied illustration at Falmouth University, and since graduating in 2005 she has continually illustrated for Magazines, Card companies and Publishers.