Since many children learn from the Ladybird Key Words Read Scheme, the stories, based on the keywords list, and the tales chosen are those which children are likely to be familiar. # ~#~ All Children have a great ambition to read by themselves, and a sense of achievement when they can do so, the READ IT YOURSELF series has been devised to satisfy their ambition. # The Ladybird Book Series - Hansel and Gretel - level 2 - Read it yourself. The more I think about this book, the more I laugh, and the more questions I have.Hardcover Coloured Matt. You know, I had rated this at 3 stars originally.forget that! I'm giving it 4 stars. Then, when they get home, their stepmother has mysteriously vanished out of their father's life. But in the context of this version of the story, Hansel and Gretel don't know that.Īnd they just take her treasure, to top it all off. Nowhere does the witch tell Hansel and Gretel that she's going to eat them. And out of nowhere, Gretel just pushes the witch in. Then, she shows Gretel the fire in the oven.

If you push people into fires, you get to keep their stuff!īecause the way the book plays out, with its simplified text, is that the witch puts Hansel in a cage. The pictures are very nice, and I can appreciate that the story is meant for small children to be able to read on their own, but.well. (Her previous choices included a book about diabetes, and a book about arthritis cures.) The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, some expression of future meaning, comparisons, contractions and relative clauses.īefore we got rained out, the child picked this as her book from the book store. Hansel and Gretel, a Level 3 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Movers exams. The five levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework and include language activities that provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) Starters, Movers and Flyers exams. Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language.īeautifully illustrated and carefully written, the series combines the best of Ladybird content with the structured language progression that will help children develop their reading, writing, speaking, listening and critical thinking skills. They found a witch's house made of candies and cake, but the witch wanted to eat Hansel and Gretel!

Hansel And Gretel by Ladybird Books