People Learn Productions Inc

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

Tahae’s story explores the difficulties in reading as experienced when coming from a violent, abusive background where nobody valued reading.

These famous short stories by Edgar Poe, that master of horror, explore the dark world of the imagination, where the dead live and speak, where fear lies in every shadow of the mind….

Oxford Bookworm Stage 3 (1000 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

Close to the wild beauty of the Yorkshire moors, a father brought up his young family. Three of the sisters had an extraordinary gift. They could write marvelous stories – Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, Agnes Grey… Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Bronte did not live to grow old. Only their father’s memories were left.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 3 (1000 words)

In the summer of 1910, a race began. A race to be the first man at the South Pole, in Antarctica. But antarctica is the coldest place on earth, and it is a long, hard journey over the ice to the South Pole. This is the story of Scott and Amundsen, and of one of the most famous and dangerous races in history.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

This is the story of Karen Silkwood. It begins with her death. Karen Silkwood had something to tell us, and she believed that it was important. Why didn't she live to tell us? Will we ever know what really happened?

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of Australian birds and animals.   Echidnas belong to a special order of mammals called monotremes.  They are different from other mammals because they lay eggs and the young do not get their milk from a teat.

Kangaroo Press

He is not beautiful. His mother does not want him, children run away from him. Then someone speaks to him - and listens to him! At the age of 27 Joseph Merrick finds a friend for the first time in his life.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of Australian birds and animals.  The Galah is a member of the cockatoo family and lives in nearly every part of Australia.  The parents take turns to keep their eggs warm for 24 days and care for their young for about four months.

Kangaroo Press

Oh, how delightful it is to fall in love for the first time! How exciting to go to your first dance when you are a girl of eighteen! But life can also be hard and cruel, if you are a child from the wrong social class. Set in Europe and New Zealand, these nine stories by Katherine Mansfield dig deep beneath the appearances of life to show us the causes of human happiness and despair.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 5 (1800 words)

Everybody wants to win the lottery. Perhaps five million pounds.  Emma Carter buys a ticket for the lottery every week, and puts the ticket carefully in her bag. She is seventy-three years old and does not have much money. She would like to visit her son in Australia.  Jason Williams buys lottery tickets every week too. He hits old ladies in the street, snatches their bags and runs away…

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

It was a love story that shook the world. The king had to choose: to be a king, or to have love ... and leave his country, never to return.  The famous story of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside.  The windows were closed and the chimney was too narrow.  How did the murderer escape? Whose were the two angry voices heard by the neighbours? Nobody in Paris could find any answers.  Except Auguste Dupin.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words) Graded Vocabulary System

The famous romance/mystery story of the Phantom’s tragic love for a young and beautiful opera singer, and his ghostly reign of terror over the dancers, directors and stage workers of the Paris Opera House.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano.  He has never played before, but now, when his fingers touch the piano, he begins to play.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of Australiam birds and animals.  The Platypus is a monotreme which means it has one opening for passsing dropppings and laying eggs.  Whilst they spend thier active life in fresh water, they build their burrow just above the water.

Kangaroo Press

The President is dead! A man is running in the night. He is afraid and needs to rest. But there are people behind him - people with The President's Murderer.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

This book was written by SANE Australia specifically for people with mental illness who are interested in understanding anxiety disorders. Presenting clear, non judgemental information about these disorders. Using line drawings and pages with minimal text, this guide assists in helping low literacy readers in gaining important health information.

This book was written by SANE Australia specifi cally for people with mental illness who are interested in understanding medication and drugs. It can be used by a variety of groups who are interested in clear, non judgemental information about what drugs are, what they do to you and how to stop taking them, if that is your plan. Using line drawings and pages with minimal text, this guide assists in helping low literacy readers.

This book has been written by SANE Australia specifically for people with mental illness who are interested in finding and keeping a job.  It can be used by a variety of groups who are interested in clear, non-judgemental information about how to make a start, writing up a resume, job interviews, and what to disclose about illness to a potential employer. It offers ways of support through planning, contacts and anecdotes.  Using line drawings and pages with minimal text, this guide assists in helping low literacy readers in gaining important life information.

This book was written by SANE Australia specifically for people with mental illness who are interested in healthy living. Presenting clear, non judgemental information about trying to live a healthy life. Using line drawings and pages with minimal text, this guide assists in helping low literacy readers in gaining important health information.

In the far distant future, Hummingbird is a girl of sixteen who lives somewhere in the Galaxy, on a planet called Just Like Home. She has never seen a real hummingbird. The Book of Remembering says that there were once many animals on a planet called Earth, but that was before the Burning ....

Oxford Bookworm Stage 3 (1000 words)

Picture Roo Books tell the life story of Australian birds and animals.  Tasmanian Devils live ony in Tasmania.  They used to live on mainland Australia but died out.  They are the largest of the flesh eating marsupials that are known to be still alive,   Marsupials keep thier young in pouches an suckle them.

Kangaroo Press

‘Richard is bored with the quiet life of his village. He lives in a future world where there are no cars, only bicycles and small villages and green forests. He is twelve years old, and like the other children, he must do his Year of Sharing. He must learn to share his world;he must learn how animals live and eat and fight….and die.’

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words)

Conradin keeps a small wild animal in the garden shed. The animal has sharp, white teeth and it loves fresh blood. Every night Conradin prays to this animal and asks it to do one thing for him, just one thing.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 3 (1000 words)

It is the year 2522, and the planet Earth is dying. The Artificial Ozone Layer is only 300 years old, but it is breaking up fast. Now the sun is burning down on Earth with a white fire. There is no water. Without water, nothing can live. Trees die, plants die, animals die, people die.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words)

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

Kangaroo Press

Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard in Haiti. When he starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead!

Oxford Bookworm stage 2 (700 words)

Sarah is nineteen and she is in prison. She says she did not do it. But if she did not, who did? Only two people can help her. Her mother and an old boyfriend who does not love her now. Can they find the real criminal?

Oxford Bookworm Stage 1 (400 words) Graded Reading System

William Shakespeare.  Born Apil 1564, at Stratford-upon-Avon.  Died April 1616. Married Anne Hathaway: two daughters, one son. Actor, poet, famous playwright. Wrote nearly forty plays. But what was he like as a man? What did he think about when he rode into London for the first time...or when he was writing his plays Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet....or when his only son died? We know the facts of his life, but we can only guess at his hopes, his fears, his dreams. 

Oxford Bookworm Stage 2 (700 words) Graded Vocabulary System.

When Mr. Earnshaw brings a strange, small, dark child back home to Wuthering Heights, it seems he has opened his doors to trouble.  This classic love story is told in its abridged form.

Oxford Bookworm Stage 5 (1800 words)