Hedgehog is about to go to sleep when OUCH! an apple lands on her back! Will her friends be able to help her?

Ouch! is from Level 2 of Ready Steady Read! a fantastic graded reading scheme with four reading levels from Little Tiger Press.

Ready Steady Read! makes learning to read fun. Each book contains games and activities to reinforce learning and test comprehension in a way developing readers will enjoy as well as handy parent notes from Prue Goodwin, Lecturer in Literacy and Children's Books. Level 2 is suitable for developing readers. The stories will help build their confidence, opening up the world of reading and imagination to them.

About Level 2:

• longer sentences
• simple vocabulary, introducing new words
• longer stories of up to 200 words
• bold design, to capture readers' interest

This book is part of a book series called Ready Steady Read .

. This book is part of a reading scheme, meaning that it is a book aimed at children who are learning to read. This reading scheme has multiple levels.

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2013 by Little Tiger Press Group .

Faustin Charles lives in London and is the author of Bloomsbury's bestselling picture book The Selfish Crocodile. Michael Terry has illustrated The Selfish Crocodile and many other firm favourites for Bloomsbury's children's list. He lives in Kent. Ragnhild Scamell is the author of many picture books and Fat Cats is her first longer story for children.