This beautifully illustrated collection contains all of Jane Austen's novels retold for young readers, including Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, Northanger Abbey and Mansfield Park, with notes on the characters and quotations from the original text. With links to websites to find out more about Jane Austen's life and times.
Buchrücken-Text: Wie sollen die Cuthberts nur mit der springlebendigen Anne zurechtkommen, die für allerhand Trubel und aufregung in ihrem bisher so beschaulichen Leben sorgt? Die liebeswerte Geschichte einer 13jährigen Waisen, die von einem älteren Paar adoptiert wird und Kindheit und Jugend auf der Farm Green Gables verbringt.
Five well-known fairy tales retold for young children and presented in a boxed 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'The Elves and the Shoemaker', 'Puss in Boots', 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and 'Cinderella'. Each book is designed and illustrated in a traditional style, bound as a cloth-covered hardback and finished with a ribbon page marker.
Leo Tolstoy's epic Russian classic, retold in just 64 pages. First published in 1869, this novel is one of the most famous books in the world, and this simple but atmospheric retelling now makes it accessible for young readers. Set in Russia following the French invasion of Russia in 1812, as the Tsarist regime is succeeded by the Napoleonic era. A concise introduction to what is widely regarded as one of the greatest works of literature ever written. The Usborne Reading Programme is a collection of over 300 reading books, graded in seven levels. Developed with reading experts. Series Three books are for fully confident readers who still need to gain the stamina needed for standard length books. They use advanced sentence structure and vocabulary and have more complex plots with subplots than the level below.
Jane Eyre ist eine Frau, die mit Sicherheit und Klugheit ihren Weg geht, die volle Gleichberechtigung von Mann und Frau, als eheliche Grundlage fordert - und deshalb gegen puritanische Engstirnigkeit und moralische Verlogenheit anzukämpfen hat. Ein unerhört aktuelles Buch, das in alle Weltsprachen übersetzt, dramatisiert und vielfach verfilmt wurde. Charlotte Brontë hat mit Jane Eyre einen der feinsinnigsten Frauenromane überhaupt geschaffen.
A new title in Young Reading Series Three, which is aimed at children whose reading ability and confidence allows them to tackle longer and more complex stories. The classic story of misadventure by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra retold for children ready to tackle longer and more complex stories. Don Quixote thinks he's a knight, just like in the days of old - he even has a squire. Of course, these days, there are no dragons to fight, but a thing like that doesn't stop him, as he drags his squire on one madcap adventure after another… Part of the Usborne Reading Programme developed with reading experts at the University of Roehampton.
When Heidi's Aunt Dete gets a new job in Frankfurt she takes Heidi up the mountains and leaves her with her grandfather who is not at all thrilled about having Heidi live with him. Just as Heidi and her Grandfather have become happy living together, Aunt Dete returns, wanting to take Heidi back to Frankfurt to be company for a rich little girl who is sick.
A marvellous addition to the highest level of the best-selling Reading Programme. Follow Alice and the White Rabbit down the rabbit hole and join in with their madcap adventures. Part of the Usborne Young Reading series, this retelling of Lewis Carroll's enduring and popular nonsensical tale is ideal for newly independent readers.
Three children try to solve the mystery of their father's disappearance when they move from London to a country cottage and befriend the porter on the local railway.
Ein Abenteuer kommt selten allein. Kinder brauchen Klassiker. Geschichten, die die Fantasie beflügeln, den Entdeckergeist wecken und neugierig machen auf die großen Abenteuer dieser Welt. Die cbj Taschenbuch Klassiker versammeln die beliebtesten und aufregendsten Kinderromane der Weltliteratur - zum Schmökern, Träumen und Immer-Wieder-Lesen. Oliver Twist kämpft sich durchs Leben der Londoner Unterschicht. Eines Tages fällt er der Gaunerbande des alten Fagin in die Hände und wird zum Stehlen gezwungen. Als er sich erwischen lässt, muss Oliver ins Gefängnis. Nach seiner Entlassung wartet die Bande bereits auf ihn. Doch dann taucht der mysteriöse Mr Brownlow auf. * In wunderschöner moderner Ausstattung * Behutsam überarbeitet und gekürzt
