People Learn Productions Inc

“Magnificent pictures with a surreal tinge make this a remarkable new edition”.  “A joy to hand and eye”.

Walker Books

This title offers insight into modern Australia and New Zealand: the geography, special characteristics and the people. Where can you go to find a city built on forty-eight volcanoes?

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles 3

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books Ltd

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books Ltd

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books Ltd

Charles’s story explores the difficulties in reading English as experienced when coming from a Taiwanese background.

Ellen is six years old when her brother Al is born. Her parents are very pleased to have a son, but Ellen is not pleased, because now baby Al comes first. And when they are adults, Al still comes first. He begins a rock band and makes records. Soon he is rich and famous – very rich, but he gives nothing to his sister Ellen.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

You're walking through the streets of London. You enter a narrow side-street. Everything is quiet, but as you pass a large, windowless building, you hear a key turning in the lock. A strange man comes out and looks at you. You realize immediately that he hates you. Who is this man that everybody hates? And why is he coming out of the laboratory of the very respectable Dr Jekyll?’

Oxford Bookworm Stage 4 (1400 words)

Richard Walton is in trouble again. He’s lost his job, and he’s borrowed money from his sister, Jennifer, again! Now he's disappeared. Jennifer is looking for him, and so are the police. They both have questions. How did he lose his job? Why did he fly to Frankfurt? Who gave his girlfriend those very expensive ear-rings?

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

This book is written specifically for adult learners to become more informed about their community in easy to read large print (size 16 font) English. It has great colour photos on every second page and is about general daily life topics such as losing a job, looking for another job, and learning about Centrelink processes. We go on a fictional journey through retrenchment, voluntary work and literacy classes. Includes exercises and glossary.

ReadON Productions

‘I had not learnt English at school, because at the time I couldn’t see any use for it.  I knew that was going to be a problem.’

Julia Wall

The Forfarshire was wrecked off the northeast coast of England in 1838. Were a man and his daughter stronger than the great waves that broke the ship in two? This is the true story of Grace Darling, a girl who became a famous heroine on that stormy night.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books Ltd

Seahorses live in shallow water along the coasts of countries right around the world except where the sea becomes too cold.  The male seahorse is a wonderful "mother".  He keeps the eggs and babies safe in a pouch on his body.  Hundreds of babies are born.  Theyt are in danger and few of them live long enough to have babies of their own.

Kangaroo Press.

Jane Eyre is a little girl with no parents.  Her aunt hates her and sends her to a terrible school.  However when she grows up, she falls in love and hopes she has found happiness at last.  But what is the mystery at Thornfield?  Can it destroy Jane's hopes?

Oxford Bookworm Stage 6 (2500 words)

Jeanette’s story explores the difficulties in reading as experienced through being dyslexic.  This series is based on a literacy tutor's experiences with a number of students in New Zealand and her work in putting these stories into print.

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RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books

Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but fi ve people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like Alan Cole, the Queen's coachman, who loses his leg in the bombing. Will the terrorists be caught and brought to justice? What kind of justice?!

Oxford Bookworm stage 3 (1000 words)

Kamla says in her own words “because I’ve had no schooling at all I’ve got a lot to catch up on, but every day I work hard for several hours to make progress, either on my own or with an ARLA tutor.”  Based on a real life experience of a New Zealand literacy student.

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of birds and other animals of Australia and New Zealand.  The young female Red Kangaroo's first two joeys die because of the drought.  But the third joey survives and, when he is 34 weeks old, his mother will not let him climb back into her pouch because a tiny new baby has crawled into it and fastened onto a teat.

Kangaroo Press

This title has photo illustrations that help illustrate some of the wriiten texts that low literacy parents may encounter when their children go to school. It is interspersed with stories from their home as well.

ReadON Productions

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of birds and other animals of Australia and New Zealand.  The kiwi is a flightless bird that lives in the forests of New Zealand.  By day it hides, by night it uses its long bill and sensitive nostrils to search for food.

Kangaroo Press

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of birds and other animals in Australia and New Zealand.  The young Kookaburras help their parents to feed the babies.

Kangaroo Press

Four people need her money. She will not give them the money so they are waiting for her to die. But one person can’t wait. And so on her fiftieth birthday, Molly Clarkson is going to die.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

Picture Roo Books  tell the life story of birds and other animals of Australia and New Zealand.  The male Lyrebird sings and dances, but the female is too busy building her nest, hatching her egg and then feeding her chick.

Kangaroo Press

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books LTD

‘I stayed (in a special physical rehabilitation home) until I was 12 and could walk by myself.  I had no schooling at all… by the time I finished college I knew my alphabet, but I couldn’t put the letters into words.’

Julia Wall

Mary was Queen of Scotland at one week old. At sixteen, she was also Queen of France. She was tall and beautiful - Many men loved her and died for her. But she also had many enemies.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

'When I left school in 1979, I was 15 years old and couldn’t spell my own name.  During the next eight years I learned to read and write, with results that went beyond my wildest dreams.  This book has been written to show that anything is possible if you have enough determination'.

This book is written specifically for adult learners to become more informed about their community in easy to read large print (size 16 font) English. It has great colour photos and is designed to help readers learn about money issues such as what payslips tell you and the process of paying bills through BPAY. We go on a fictional journey to see how a family can learn to budget, use credit cards and use phone banking. Includes exercises and glossary.

ReadON productions

It is night in the south seas near Tahiti, and the ship HMS Bounty has begun the long voyage home to England. But the sailors on the ship are angry men, and they have swords and guns.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress - ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of this century. O. Henry's famous short stories - sensitive, funny, sympathetic - give us vivid pictures of these New Yorkers.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

Tom Walsh had a lot to learn about life. He liked travelling, and he was in no hurry. He liked meeting people, anyone and everyone. He liked the two American girls on the train. They were nice and very friendly.They knew a lot of places. Tom thought they were fun. Tom certainly had a lot to learn about life.

This is a collection of short stories about adventures on trains. Strange, wonderful, and frightening things can happen on trains - and all of them happen here.

Oxford Bookworms Stage 2

RED NOSE READERS

(with kind permission of Walker Books Ltd)

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books Ltd

This title is a fictional account of 'mapping' out your neighbourhood which includes a guide to wayfinding and what happens when the local deli is overcome by a sudden robbery.  Colourful photo illustrations.

ReadOn Productions

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of Australian birds and animals.

Kangaroo Press

A beautiful young Indian girl, and a brave Englishman. A friendly smile, a laugh, a look of love…. But this is North America in 1607, and love is not easy. The girl is the daughter of King Powhatan.  This is the famous story of Pocahontas, and her love for the white Englishman John Smith.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books Ltd

Fourteen year old Molly and her cousins Daisy and Gracie were mixed-race Aborigines. In 1931 they were taken away from their families and sent to a camp to be trained as good "white" Australians.They were told to forget their mothers, their language, their home. But Molly would not forget. She and her cousins escaped and walked back to Jigalong, 1600 kilometres away, following the rabbit-proof fence north across Western Australia to their desert home. Rabbit-Proof Fence is the true story of that walk, told by Molly's daughter, Doris. It is also a prize-winning film.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 3

RED NOSE READERS

The easiest of easy readers - and the funniest!  “Children fortunate enough to encounter this dotty reading scheme have been found banging on the bookcase and shouting for more”.  All have very basic text (BB).

Walker Books Ltd