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This activity book offers support for Levels 3-4 of the bestselling Key Words reading scheme. With an emphasis on the link between the written and the spoken word, this book is particularly useful for vocabulary reinforcement and those learning English as a second language.show moreISBN: 9781846464959Numar pagini: 24Format: 178 x 295 x 4mm | 126gAnul aparitiei: 2006...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics.Likened to Louisa May Alcott\\''s Little Women, What Katy Did Next is a timeless classic for both children and adults to enjoy.The story of Katy Carr, the lanky, good-hearted tomboy who learns to be gentle and patient, is continued in this third instalment of Susan Coolidge\\''s popular Katy series. When Mrs Ashe, a widower, discovers that her visiting nephew has scarlet fever, she sends her only daughter Am...

This activity book offers support for Levels 5-6 of the bestselling Key Words reading scheme. With an emphasis on the link between the written and the spoken word, this book is particularly useful for vocabulary reinforcement and those learning English as a second language.show moreISBN: 9781846464966Numar pagini: 24Format: 192 x 244 x 2mm | 102gAnul aparitiei: 2016...

Reader mit CD-ROM/Audio-CDDie Schildkrote und der Hase tragen ein ungleiches Wettrennen aus. Die Schildkrote muss sich abmuhen, denn mit ihrem schweren Panzer und den kurzen Beinen ist sie bedeutend langsamer als der Hase. Doch sie gibt nicht auf. Gleich zu Beginn des Rennens geht der Hase in Fuhrung, wird aber rasch mude. Er rastet und schlaft dabei ein. Wird die beharrliche Schildkrote das Rennen nun fur sich entscheiden?Die neue Reihe Helbling Young Readers richtet sich an Kinder im Grundschu...

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and theyll love their English lessons too.This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories - now with accompanying:e-BooksAudio PacksActivity Books and PlaysProject the story and accompanying American English audio onto the Interactive Whiteboard - a digital Big Book! Students can also watch and listen...

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and theyll love their English lessons too.This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories - now with accompanying:e-BooksAudio PacksActivity Books and PlaysProject the story and accompanying American English audio onto the Interactive Whiteboard - a digital Big Book! Students can also watch and listen...

Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and theyll love their English lessons too.This new edition of the award-winning series uses traditional tales to bring English to life through more than 30 beautifully illustrated stories - now with accompanying:e-BooksAudio PacksActivity Books and PlaysProject the story and accompanying American English audio onto the Interactive Whiteboard - a digital Big Book! Students can also watch and listen...

Old Brown has Peter Rabbit''s book. Peter, Benjamin and Lily want it back!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 sk...

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.Beautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''It\\''s a poor sort of memory that only works backward.\\''In Carroll\\''s sequel to Alice\\''s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice once again finds herself in a bizarre and nonsensical place when she passes through a mirror and enters a looking-glass world where nothing is quite as it seems. From her guest appearance as a pawn in a chess match to her meeting with Humpty Dumpty, Through the Looking Glass follows Alice ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Where, you tend a rose, my lad, A thistle cannot grow.\\''Orphaned and sent to live with her uncle in his austere manor on the moors, Mary Lennox is a lonely and unhappy child. A meeting with Dickon, her servant\\''s brother begins her adventure and it is through their friendship and her relationship with her troubled hypochondriac cousin Colin that she begins to learn about herself. Their lives all begin to change...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`He felt that in this crisis his laws of life were useless. Whatever he had learned of himself was here of no avail. He was an unknown quantity.''Following one soldier''s journey from naive recruit to hardened survivor, The Red Badge of Courage is a vivid and powerfully psychological take on the American Civil War. Fighting for the Union army, Henry Fleming is thrown into a bloody war where the harsh realities and ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`...when the Green Dragon tore shrieking out of the mouth of its dark lair, which was the tunnel, all three children stood on the railing and waved their pocket-handkerchiefs without stopping to think whether they were clean handkerchiefs or the reverse.''When their father is mysteriously sent away, Roberta, Peter and Phyllis have to leave London with their mother to live in a cottage in the countryside. Finding co...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`\\"Come along, Toto,\\" she said. \\"We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again.\\"\\''Swept away from her home in Kansas by a tornado, Dorothy and her dog Toto find themselves stranded in the fantastical Land of Oz. As instructed by the Good Witch of the North and the Munchkins, Dorothy sets off on the yellow brick road to try and find her way to the Emerald City and the Wizar...

HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics.`Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank, and of having nothing to do: once or twice she had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it, "and what is the use of a book," thought Alice, "without pictures or conversations?"''So begins the tale of Alice, who follows a curious White Rabbit down a hole and falls into Wonderland, a fantastical...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''We said there warn\\''t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don\\''t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.\\''Huck Finn escapes from his alcoholic father by faking his own death and so begins his journey through the Deep South, seeking independence and freedom. On his travels, Huck meets an escaped slave, Jim, who is a wanted man, and t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''Fifteen men on the dead man\\''s chest -Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!\\''Upon finding a map in his parents\\'' inn, young Jim Hawkins joins a crew on route to the Caribbean to find buried treasure. One of his crew, the charming, yet devious Long John Silver is determined to snag the booty for himself and Jim\\''s swashbuckling voyage becomes a mutinous and murderous adventure - where his own bravery is put to ...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.`It doesn\\''t matter if you\\''re born in a duck yard, so long as you are hatched from a swan\\''s egg!\\'' (from `The Ugly Duckling\\'')This collection brings together some of Hans Christian Andersen\\''s most popular fairy tales - including `The Little Mermaid\\'', `The Ugly Duckling\\'' and `Thumbelina\\'' - in a celebration of one of the world\\''s most widely recognised children\\''s authors. With universal t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''It happen\\''d one Day about Noon going towards my Boat, I was exceedingly surpriz\\''d with the Print of a Man\\''s naked Foot on the Shore.\\''Shipwrecked in a storm at sea, Robinson Crusoe is washed up on a remote and desolate island. As he struggles to piece together a life for himself, Crusoe\\''s physical, moral and spiritual values are tested to the limit. For 24 years he remains in solitude and learns t...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.\\''There is no harm in a man\\''s cub.\\''Best known for the \\''Mowgli\\'' stories, Rudyard Kipling\\''s The Jungle Book expertly interweaves myth, morals, adventure and powerful story-telling. Set in Central India, Mowgli is raised by a pack of wolves. Along the way he encounters memorable characters such as the foreboding tiger Shere Kahn, Bagheera the panther and Baloo the bear. Including other stories such as...