Quentin Blake

This <b>ELT Graded Reader</b> is made for people <b>learning English</b> as an additional language. The short, simple text is also perfect for anyone looking for <b>an easier read</b>. It is an <b>adapted version</b> of the original story.<br/><br/><i>This story is about sweet shops, school days and summer holidays! It is the story of the famous writer, Roald Dahl, when he was a boy. These tales are exciting, funny and sometimes frightening. All of them are true.</i><br/><br/>Our <b>Penguin Readers</b> books include:<br/><ul><li><b>Simple text (</b>CEFR-levelled)</li><li><b>Pictures</b> to help you understand the story</li><li>Fun <b>exercises</b> to help you learn and practise English</li></ul><br/><br/>With the print book, you can get even more help online:<ul><li>Read the book online</li><li><b>Listen</b> to the book being read out loud</li><li>Get <b>lesson</b> <b>plans</b> for teachers</li><li>Find <b>answers</b> to check your understanding<br/><br/></li></ul><br/><br/>Note: online resources not available with the eBook.

'But...but...who are you?' Little Billy asked.<br/><br/>'We are the Minpins,' the tiny man said, 'and we own this wood'.<br/><br/>Billy's mum says he must never go out through the garden gate and explore the dark forest beyond.<br/><br/>So, one day, that's exactly what he does!<br/><br/>There he meets the Minpins, tiny tree-dwelling people whose children are the size of matchsticks. They live in fear of the terrible, galloping GRUNCHER.<br/><br/>Will it gobble Billy too - or can he find a way to defeat the hungry beast?

Magic Finger [Bok / Pocket]

Esio Trot [Bok / Pocket]

<i>"One child a week is fifty-two a year. Squish them and squiggle them and make them disappear."</i><br/><br/><b>This is a story about REAL WITCHES.</b><br/><br/>Real witches dress in ordinary clothes, have ordinary jobs and look very much like ordinary people.<br/><br/>But they are far from ORDINARY . . .<br/><br/>The Grand High Witch, leader of all the witches, has a plan to make each and every child disappear.<br/><br/><b>That is, unless one boy and his grandmother can stop her . . .</b>

<i><b>"Human beans is not really believing in giants, is they? Human beans is not thinking we exist."</b></i><br/><br/>One dark, silvery moonlit night, <b>Sophie</b> is snatched from her bed by a giant!<br/><br/>Luckily it is the <b>Big Friendly Giant </b>(the BFG), who is no ordinary bone-crunching giant, but instead prefers <b>snozzcumbers</b> and <b>frobscottle </b>to children.<br/><br/>But there are other giants in Giant Country. And those giants have a plan to gallop far and wide to find some tasty human beans to eat.<br/><br/><b>Can Sophie and the BFG stop them?</b>

<i>On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me....</i><br/> <i>Three Naughty Muggle-Wumps</i><br/> <i>Two Smelly Twits</i><br/> <i>and</i><br/> <i>Matilda in the library!</i><br/><br/> With whipple-scrumptious recipes for festive feasting, tricksy pranks to get you on the naughty list, amazing Crimbo activities and jolly jokes guaranteed to make Santa ho-ho-ho, the world's favourite storyteller brings you everything you need for a very merry Christmas!