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Art contrasted with Nature, and outer ugliness with inner beauty, are just two of the themes featured in this collection of 6 tales, including The Canterville Ghost, The Remarkable Rocket, and - for all those who "have kept the childlike faculti[...]texte imprimé
Gabriella Bonavoglia, Éditeur scientifique ; Roald Dahl, Auteur ; Bernard MacLaverty, Auteur ; Graham Greene, Auteur ; Kate Chopin, Auteur ; Shirley Jackson, Auteur | Black Cat Publishing Cideb | 1996These short stories – all with a surprise ending – explore themes such as appearances and reality, prejudices and beliefs, and isolation – all raising questions which relate to the human condition. Text analysis activities focus on comprehensio[...]texte imprimé
George and Harold are having a normal kind of week. Yesterday they found out they were going to flunk fourth grade. Today they've created an evil, super-powerful monster. She's mean. She's got a fake-fur Evil Baddie costume (and she's having a r[...]texte imprimé
Stage 5 Great Expectations follows the life of the orphan, Pip. We first meet him as a tiny, terrified child in a village churchyard. Years later, through the help of an anonymous benefactor, Pip will travel to London, full of expectations to b[...]texte imprimé
Level 3 A blind musician plays to the spirits of the dead. A priest is attacked by heads that have left their bodies. An old man meets a woman who has no face. Read these and many more strange, ghostly stories from old Japan – and be afraid!texte imprimé
Clare West, Adaptateur ; Arya Praharaj, Illustrateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2008Stage 4 My brother preferred being with mother and me. He used to help us prepare vegetables in the kitchen or make the bread. But what he liked best was listening to my mother's stories.' But those childhood days are long gone, and sister and [...]texte imprimé
Stage 2 For a child in the great city of Venice in the thirteenth century, there could be nothing better than the stories of sailors. There were stories of strange animals, wonderful cities, sweet spices, and terrible wild deserts where a trave[...]texte imprimé
J. Bingham, Adaptateur ; Phil Roxbee Cox, Auteur ; Sue Hellard, Illustrateur | Londres : Usborne | 2005Mystery Mansion is a place of dark secrets and terrifying nightmares. Harry the boot boy tries to ignore them all and get on with his job - until he finds himself caught up in an adventure more scary than any nightmare.texte imprimé
Arthur Conan Doyle, Auteur ; Clare West, Adaptateur | Oxford University Press | Oxford Bookworms | 2007Stage 2 Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective of them all. He sits in his room, and smokes his pipe. He listens to the steps coming up the stairs; he watches the door opening- and he knows what question the stranger will ask. In these thre[...]texte imprimé
Christopher Rawson, Auteur ; Gill Harvey, Adaptateur ; Stephen Cartwright, Illustrateur | Londres : Usborne | 2002This series of books combine good stories with easy reading text for children aged five to six years and over who have just started reading alone. The series has been developed with Alison Kelly who is an expert in early reading.texte imprimé
Level 6 A Tale of Two Cities takes place in the drama of the French Revolution. Th two cities are Paris ans London, and the tale is a tragic one. In the violence ans terror of the Revolution, Sydney Carton, a young Englishman, sacrifices himsel[...]texte imprimé
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Emma Fischel, Auteur ; Adrienne Kern, Illustrateur ; J. Bingham, Adaptateur | Londres : Usborne | 2004Why is the Midnight family home haunted? And what are the ghosts trying to tell Adam and Sally? Perhaps it has something to do with the Midnight family curse.texte imprimé
‘That,’ said Mr Borthwick, ‘was the best hamburger I’ve ever tasted!’ Joe has just created the yummiest, juciest, most delicious hamburger ever – and his friend Mr Borthwick wants to sell it in his new hamburger shop. But there’s a problem – Joe[...]texte imprimé
Level 5 This drama is one of the great comedy plays by William Shakespeare. The themes illustrated in the play are freedom, friendship , repentance and forgiveness and feature different temperaments illustrating temperance and intemperance. The[...]