• The Princess and the Frog – Hardcover (Read It Yourself with Ladybird, Level 2)

    Age Range: 5 – 7  years

    A kind frog helps a princess and she makes him a promise. What happens when the king tells her that she has keep her promise?

    Read It Yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird’s best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.

    Each Read It Yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.

    Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.

    The Princess and the Frog is a Level 2 Read it yourself title, ideal for children who have received some initial reading instruction and can read short, simple sentences with help.

  • The Ugly Duckling – Hardcover (Read It Yourself with Ladybird, Level 1)

    Age Range: 4 – 6  years

    Based on the classic fairy tale. The ugly duckling doesn’t fit in and is chased away by everyone he meets. Will he ever find some true friends?

    Read It Yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird’s best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills.

    Each Read It Yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited number of story words that are introduced and practised throughout. Simple sentences and frequently repeated words help to build the confidence of beginner readers and the four different levels of books support children all the way from very first reading practice through to independent, fluent reading.

    Each book has been carefully checked by educational consultants and can be read independently at home or used in a guided reading session at school. Further content includes comprehension puzzles, helpful notes for parents, carers and teachers, and book band information for use in schools.

    The Tale of Peter Rabbit is a Level 1 Read it yourself title, suitable for very early readers who have had some initial reading instruction and are ready to take their first steps in reading real stories. Each story is told very simply, using a small number of frequently repeated words.

  • Ladybird Tales: The Little Mermaid (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    This beautiful hardback Ladybird edition of The Little Mermaid is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The story is sensitively retold, following the tale of the young mermaid who falls in love with a human prince.

    Other exciting titles in the Ladybird Tales series include The Three Billy Goats Gruff, Cinderella, The Three Little Pigs, Jack and the Beanstalk, Goldilocks and the Three Little Pigs, The Gingerbread Man, Hansel and Gretel, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, Rumpelstiltskin, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Rapunzel, The Magic Porridge Pot, The Enormous Turnip, Puss in Boots, The Elves and the Shoemaker, The Big Pancake, Dick Whittington, The Princess and the Frog, The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling and The Little Red Hen.

    Ladybird Tales are based on the original Ladybird retellings, with beautiful pictures of the kind children like best – full of richness and detail. Children have always loved, and will always remember, these classic fairy tales and sharing them together is an experience to treasure. Ladybird has published fairy tales for over forty-five years, bringing the magic of traditional stories to each new generation of children.

     

  • Circle Time with Siya and Nkosi

    Age Range: 3+ years

    Siya and Nkosi , two adventurous children, and their parents relocate from Cape Town, South Africa, a busy tourist city, to a new home in a quite village in Coffee Bay also in South Africa.

    As they settle into their new home, they notice the difference in the city activities and the village life.

    A lesson they learn is the value in being a good neighbour and how books light up our world when especially when we share.

  • The Canterville Ghost (Penguin Readers Level 1)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    An American family buy Canterville Hall – a house with a ghost. But the ghost is not happy because it cannot frighten the family.

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    The Canterville Ghost, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds. Illustrations support the text throughout, and many titles at this level are graphic novels.

  • Freddie Mercury (Penguin Readers Level 5)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    This book tells the story of Freddie Mercury, one of the greatest rock stars of all time. Learn about his early years as a shy young boy from Zanzibar. Discover how he became the lead singer of one of the most famous rock bands in history, Queen.

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    Frankenstein, a Level 5 Reader, is B1 in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing present perfect continuous, past perfect, reported speech and second conditional. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly.

  • The Woman in White (Penguin Readers Level 7)

    Age Range: 12 – 17  years

    One night when Walter Hartwright is walking home, he meets and helps the mysterious ‘woman in white’. Soon after this meeting, Walter starts a job as a drawing teacher in the north of England and falls in love with his student, Laura Fairlie. But Laura is engaged to Sir Percival Glyde. Then Laura receives a letter warning her not to marry Glyde. Walter is sure that the letter comes from the woman in white…

    Penguin Readers is a series of popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction written for learners of English as a foreign language. Beautifully illustrated and carefully adapted, the series introduces language learners around the world to the bestselling authors and most compelling content from Penguin Random House. The eight levels of Penguin Readers follow the Common European Framework and include language activities that help readers to develop key skills.

    The Woman in White, a Level 7 Reader, is B2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to four clauses, introducing future perfect simple, mixed conditionals, past perfect continuous, mixed conditionals, more complex passive forms and modals for deduction in the past.

  • Wuthering Heights (Oxford World Classics)

    Wuthering Heights is one of the most famous love stories in the English language. It is also, as the Introduction to this edition reveals, one of the most potent revenge narratives. Its ingenious narrative structure, vivid evocation of landscape, and the extraordinary power of its depiction of love and hatred have given it a unique place in English literature. The passionate tale of Catherine and Heathcliff is here presented in a new edition that examines the qualities that make it such a powerful and compelling novel. The Introduction by Helen Small sheds light on the novel’s oddness and power, its amorality and Romantic influences, its structure and narration, and the sadistic violence embodied in the character of Heathcliff.

    The volume retains the authoritative Clarendon text and notes, with new notes that identify literary allusions hitherto unnoticed. In addition, the edition boasts two appendices, one of which contains poems by Emily Brontë selected for their relevance to the novel, and a second which contains Charlotte Brontë’s “Biographical Notice of Ellis & Acton Bell” and “Preface to the New Edition.”

    About the Series: For over 100 years Oxford World’s Classics has made available the broadest spectrum of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford’s commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, voluminous notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

  • Civil War on Sunday (Magic Tree House, #21)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!

    Cannon fire!

    That’s what Jack and Annie hear when the Magic Tree House whisks them back to the time of the American Civil War. There they meet a famous nurse named Clara Barton and do their best to help wounded soldiers. It is their hardest journey in time yet—and the one that will make the most difference to their own lives!

     

  • Tigers at Twilight (Magic Tree House, #19)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Jack and Annie are ready for their next fantasy adventure in the bestselling middle-grade series—the Magic Tree House!

    Tigers in trouble?

    That’s what Jack and Annie find when the Magic Tree House whisks them and Teddy, the enchanted dog, to a forest in India. The rare tigers are being trapped by greedy poachers! Can Jack and Annie find a way to help? Or will a fierce tiger eat them instead?

     

  • Buffalo Before Breakfast (Magic Tree House, #18)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Hello, buffalo!

    That’s what Jack and Annie say when the Magic Tree House whisks them and Teddy, the enchanted dog, back almost 200 years to the Great Plains. There they meet a Lakota boy who shows them how to hunt buffalo. But something goes wrong! Now they need to stop a thousand buffalo from stampeding!

     

  • Olympic Challenge! (Magic Tree House, #16)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    It’s off to ancient Greece for the children and the tree house where the first Olympic games is taking place!

     

  • Racing With Gladiators (Magic Tree House, #13)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Now master librarians, Jack and Annie are sent on a mission to find a lost story – in ancient Rome! It seems peaceful until the ground shakes and they realise they’re there on the day that Mount Vesuvius erupts and they’re in danger of being buried !

  • Icy Escape! (Magic Tree House, #12)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Jack and Annie are on very thin ice!

    Morgan Le Fay, the magical librarian, sends the children and the treehouse to the Arctic and tells them she’ll send somebody to meet them there. But they’re surrounded by ice and snow and there are huskies and polar bears all around them too – will they freeze to death first?

     

  • Lions on the Loose (Magic Tree House, #11)

    Age Range: 6+ years

    Whisked away to Africa on this adventure in the tree house, Jack and Annie cannot believe all the wild animals they see. They end up showering with elephants, helping wildebeests cross the river and they have a picnic with a maasi warrior! But when their route back to the tree house is blocked by some scary lions they need to come up with a clever plan of escape – and fast!

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