Series: (A Twentiegh Century Fox Film). Level 1: Early Beginner Blu is from the USA/ Now he is in Rio with Jewel, a beatiful blue Spix’s Macaw. It’s Carnival time! But who are Marcel and Nigel? And why do they have lots of birds in cages?
Monster House Level 1 600 headwords 32 pages It's Hallowe'en but DJ doesn’t want to go trick-or-treating. He wants to spy on the house across the road because he’s convinced it's alive. DJ and his friends discover that the house is eating things and people. When the police don't believe them, they attempt to solve the mystery of the 'monster house' on their own.
Active Reading is a new series which provides enjoyable stories and texts combined with activities designed to develop reading skills. Each book also contains an interactive CD-ROM, which contains activities and a complete audio recording of the story.
The Snow Goose and Other Stories (Active Reading-Level 3)
The Snow Goose’ is the most famous of these three stories by Paul Gallico. It is the story of Philip, a lonely painter who lives in an old lighthouse, and Fritha, a young girl who brings him a large white bird – the snow goose. It becomes a special bird in Philip’s life – and later the girl becomes special too.
First published in 1992 it’s one of the earlier Rebus books. The first story in this book is called “Playback”. Rebus is impressed by being able to phone your home phone “from the car-phone” to get “the answering machine to play back any messages.” You can tell from this that it’s rather different from current crime detection fiction. As the title indicates, solving the crime in this story hinges on phone messages. The police receive a phone call from the murderer confessing his crime. He panics and tries to flee, only to be caught as the police arrive on the scene of the crime. He then insists on his innocence.
