Don't just read - read aloud! With a treasure-trove of 15 favourite tales, each accompanied by an audio retelling read by a professional storyteller, this book gives children the perfect opportunity to read aloud, listen along, follow text, read together and do all the things they need to build their literacy skills! They'll meet gingerbread men, monkeys, magicians and more in this captivating collection, which comes with an audio CD.

This beautiful collection contains traditional tales that have been carefully retold using phonics and familiar language so that children can read them for themselves. It contains 4 stories in 1: The Gingerbread Man, The Enormous Turnip, The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse and Get the Rat!

When Turgenev published Diary of a Superfluous Man in 1850, he created one of the first literary portraits of the alienated man. Turgenev once said that there was a great deal of himself in the unsuccessful lovers who appear in his fiction. This failure, along with painful self-consciousness, is a central fact for the ailing Chulkaturin in this melancholy tale. As he reflects on his life, he tells the story of Liza, whom he loved, and a prince, whom she loved instead, and the curious turns all their lives took.