• Ladybird Tales: The Emperor’s New Clothes (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    This beautiful edition of The Emperor’s New Clothes is a perfect first illustrated introduction to this classic fairy tale for young readers from 3+. The tale is sensitively retold, following the story of the vain emperor who is taken in by a pair of trickster weavers.

    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.

  • First Skills with Ladybird: Counting (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 2 – 4  years

    Mastering the concepts of counting, matching and number sequencing is an important step for young children developing their first skills.

    • Introduces the numbers 1-10
    • Builds basic mathematical skills
    • Supports numeracy work done at school
    • Advice on how to help your child

    First Skills is a new series designed to develop essential core skills for 2 -4 year-olds.

    Bright, colourful photographs help to capture children’s imaginations.

     

  • First Skills with Ladybird: Big and Little (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 2 – 4  years

    Learning the concepts of comparing and sorting is an important skill, helping young children to understand the world around them.

    • Helps to teach comparing and sorting
    • Builds understanding of the world
    • Supports early literacy skills
    • Advice on how to help your child

    First Skills is a new series designed to develop essential core skills for 2 -4 year-olds.

    Bright, colourful photographs help to capture children’s imaginations.

     

  • First Skills with Ladybird: Telling the Time (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 2 – 4  years

    Understanding time words and phrases and talking about daily routines are important steps in learning to tell the time.

    • Helps to teach telling the time
    • Introduces time words and phrases
    • Supports works done at school
    • Advice on how to help your child

    First Skills is a new series designed to develop essential core skills for 2 -4 year-olds.

    Bright, colourful photographs help to capture children’s imaginations.

     

  • First Skills with Ladybird: Colours and Shapes (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 2 – 4  years

    Being able to identify and name colours and shapes is an important milestone for young children developing their first skills.

    • Helps to introduce colours and shapes
    • Builds understanding of the world
    • Supports early mathematical skills
    • Advice on how to help your child

    First Skills is a new series designed to develop essential core skills for 2 -4 year-olds.

    Bright, colourful photographs help to capture children’s imaginations.

     

  • First Skills with Ladybird: ABC (Hardcover)

    Age Range: 2 – 4  years

    Knowing the sounds of the letters in the alphabet and matching those letter sounds to pictures are important pre-reading skills for young children.

    • Helps to introduce the alphabet
    • Builds understanding of letter sounds
    • Supports early literacy skills
    • Advice on how to help your child

    First Skills is a new series designed to develop essential core skills for 2 -4 year-olds.

    Bright, colourful photographs help to capture children’s imaginations.

     

  • Jon’s Football Team (Ladybird Readers Series Level 1)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    The blue and yellow team get three goals! Jon’s team do not get any goals. Ben Wills helps Jon. Now, Jon’s team get lots of goals!

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children aged 5+, the four levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework (Pre-A1 to A2) and include language activities that help develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.

    This Level 1 Reader is Pre-A1 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Starters exams. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present tense and some simple adjectives.

     

  • The Magic Paintbrush (Ladybird Readers Series Level 2)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    Sui-Ming wanted to draw, and one day he found a magic paintbrush. “My paintbrush must help people,” said Sui-Ming.

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children aged 4+, the six levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework (Pre-A1 to A2) and include language activities that help develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) exams.

    This Level 2 Reader is A1 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Movers exams. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past tense and some simple adverbs.

     

  • Rex the Big Dinosaur (Ladybird Readers Series Level 1)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    Rex is a big dinosaur. He sees some small dinosaurs. They are playing. “Can I play, too?” asks Rex.

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.

    Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills.

    The five levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.

    Rex the Dinosaur, a Level 1 Reader, is Pre-A1 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Starters exams. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present tense and some simple adjectives.

     

  • Peter Rabbit: Goes to the Island (Ladybird Readers Series Level 1)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    Old Brown has Peter Rabbit’s dad’s book. Peter, Benjamin and Lily want it back. The three friends must go to Old Brown’s island!

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.

    Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills.

    The four levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.

    Peter Rabbit Goes to the Island, a Level 1 Reader, is Pre-A1 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Starters exams. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present tense and some simple adjectives.

     

  • Ladybird Dictionary

    Age Range: 4 – 11  years

    Ladybird Dictionary will help young learners aged 4-11 to find and understand words in English.

    This engaging dictionary is informed by the Cambridge Young Learners word lists, and features an introduction on how to use the dictionary, an A-Z section, and a picture dictionary at the back, which groups words that are useful to learn together.

    With beautiful illustrations, and simple definitions written by experts, this dictionary helps children improve their English vocabulary. The words in the dictionary are informed by the Cambridge English: Young Learner exams word lists.

    This dictionary can be used alongside the Ladybird Graded Readers series, or the Ladybird Grammar Workbooks, for children aged 4+ learning English as a second or foreign language.

     

  • The Jungle Book (Ladybird Readers Series Level 3)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    Mowgli lived with the wolves in the jungle. But the wolves did not want him. “You are not strong because you are not a wolf, ” they said.

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.

    Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills.

    The four levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.

    The Jungle Book, a Level 3 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Movers exams. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, some expression of future meaning, comparisons, contractions and relative clauses.

     

  • Space (Ladybird Readers Series Level 4)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    Space is very big. It’s full of planets, comets, stars and asteroids. People have gone into Space and they have visited the moon!

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.

    Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills.

    The four levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.

    Space, a Level 4 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Flyers exams. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, more complex past and future tense structures, modal verbs and a wider variety of conjunctions.

     

  • The Red Knight (Ladybird Readers Series Level 3)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    Tom’s brother Will was a knight. One day, Will had to go away. Later, a knight in red armour came to the castle.
    Who was he?

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.

    Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills.

    The four levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.

    The Red Knight, a Level 3 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Movers exams. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, some expression of future meaning, comparisons, contractions and relative clauses.

     

  • The Wizard of Oz (Ladybird Readers Series Level 4)

    Age Range: 5 – 8  years

    One day, a storm took Dorothy and Toto to the Land of Oz. Dorothy liked the new friends she met, but she wanted to go home.

    Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.

    Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills.

    The four levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams.

    The Wizard of Oz, a Level 4 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Flyers exams. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, more complex past and future tense structures, modal verbs and a wider variety of conjunctions.

     

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