Your Next Read Gold: Escape From Planet Milkshake

Your Next Read is the series that will help kids fall in love with reading and reach for the next book – and the next, and the next!

The series removes reading roadblocks and grows with kids as their reading confidence and reading interests develop. The engaging stories, carefully structured text and illustrations make reading accessible and enjoyable for all kids, whether they are newly independent readers or ready to take the next step.

Do you like SCIENCE FICTION, ACTION and FUNNY STORIES?

Then this book is YOUR NEXT READ.

Freddy is having a normal day until a spaceship crashes in his backyard. Now he is dealing with a cranky robot, an unexpected trip to space and evil slime wizards! And that's all before he even arrives at Planet Milkshake …

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Each book is expertly designed to support children who may be struggling with reading. Accessible fonts, carefully spaced text, off-white paper stock, shorter sentences and chapters, and supportive illustrations all work together to reduce overwhelm, build comprehension and create a reader-friendly experience.

The Your Next Read Silver Series for beginner readers are 112 pages long, divided into six to eight short chapters with an illustration on every spread supporting short sentences and paragraphs. The Gold Series for emerging independent readers are 144 pages long, divided into eight to ten chapters with three illustrations in each chapter, and featuring more complex narratives.

The easy-to-recognise icons covering themes like friendship, sport, mystery and humour, coupled with much-loved writers and illustrators, means kids can quickly identify the books that interest them most and follow those cues to discover a large library of books in the series to read and collect next.

About the Author

Kate and Jol Temple love to write silly books for kids! Some of them rhyme and others do not. Kate and Jol have written more than 40 books for kids including the popular Bin Chicken series and Mega Rich Guinea Pigs, plus so many more. They live in Sydney with their human sons and a dog that thinks it's a racoon.