The repetitive patterns in these stories make new words easier to learn. Reading traditional stories before and during the first years of primary school dives your child's reading a valuable boost.
LadyBird Favorite Tales are beautifully illustrated retellings that capture all the magic of the original stories. Children will enjoy reading them again and again.
The enormous turnip. The magic porridge pot the three Billy Goats Gruff. The ugly duckling goldilocks and the three bears. Little Red Hen.
Favourite stories are retold in a lively natural language to help children to develop the confidence to read alone. Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox.
Designed for children learning to read, this book retells "Chicken Licken" in natural language with repeated phrases to help children develop the confidence to read alone. Level Two is suitable for children who are familiar with some simple words and can read short sentences with help.
Once upon a time, there was a little red hen who lived all by herself in a little house in the woods. She kept her little house neat and tidy, and she did all her own washing and cooking and cleaning. Every day she went out with her little basket to pick up sticks for her fire.
This volume is aimed at children who are beginning to read by themselves. It contains clear and compelling text that allows children to build their burgeoning reading skills.
Henny Penny and her friends are on their way to tell the king that the sky is falling when they meet a hungry fox. A classic nonsense folktale follows the journey of the scatterbrained Henny Penny and her friends Ducky Lucky, Goosey Loosey, and Turkey Lurkey, as they race to inform the king that the sky is falling. Reprint.
These pictures are some of the characters and things the story tells about. Let the child to whom you are reading SEE and SAY them. Then, as you read the story text and come to a picture instead of a word, pause and point to the picture for your listener to SEE and SAY. You'll be amazed at how quickly children catch on and enjoy participating in the story-telling.
Convinced the sky is falling, Henny Penny and a band of gullible friends march off to tell the king, only to meet their end at the hands of a wily fox.