Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they’ll love their English lessons too.
A little girl went into the forest to visit her Grandma. Her mother told her not to stop and play, and not to leave the road. But the little girl met a wolf, told the wolf where she was going, and left the path to pick some flowers. The wolf ran to Grandma's house, ate her, put on one of her nightdresses, and got into Grandma's bed. Does the wolf eat Little Red Riding Hood, too? What happens when Little Red Riding Hood's father finds the wolf?
Children love stories. Bring the magic of good storytelling into your classroom with Classic Tales, and they’ll love their English lessons too.
A woman plants a seed and waits. At last a flower grows. And inside there's a little girl. The woman is very happy and calls the girl Thumbelina. Thumbelina plays and sings all day. But one night a toad comes and says: 'My son wants a wife. You can be his wife.' The toad carries Thumbelina away. Who can help her?
To her much-loved Earthsea novels Le Guin appends five tales that, she states, "will profit by being read after, not before, the novels." One of them, a novella, is set during a dark era, some 300 years prior to the novels' time, when it is dangerous to practice sorcery. This richly told narrative provides background to the novels as it tells of a search for identity, a romance, and the beginning of a school for magicians.
