Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści „The Secret Garden. Tajemniczy ogród” to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średnio zaawansowanych, jednak dzięki dwujęzycznej wersji z książki mogą korzystać czytelnicy dopiero rozpoczynający naukę angielskiego. Odnośniki umieszczone przy każdym akapicie umożliwiają zm...
Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści „Gulliver's Travels. Podróże Guliwera” Jonathana Swifta to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów powieści, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średnio zaawansowanych, jednak dzięki dwujęzycznej wersji książki mogą z niej korzystać czytelnicy dopiero rozpoczynający naukę angielskiego. Odnośniki umieszczone przy ...
Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści Charlesa Dickensa „A Christmas Carol. Opowieść wigilijna” to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Adaptacja została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średnio zaawansowanych, jednak dzięki dwujęzycznej wersji z książki mogą korzystać czytelnicy dopiero rozpoczynający naukę angielskiego. Odnośniki umieszczone przy każdym akapicie umożliwiają zmianę wersji językowej z angielskiej na polską i z polskiej ...
Drugi tom serii o przygodach rudowłosej Anne Shirley w znakomitym przekładzie Anny Bańkowskiej, który wywołał wiele emocji. Anne, choć zamierzała wyjechać na studia, zostaje w Avonlea, żeby opiekować się tracącą wzrok Marillą. Rozpoczyna pracę w tutejszej szkole, zawiera nowe, ciekawe znajomości, a założone przez nią Koło Entuzjastów Avonlea działa coraz prężniej. Do tego wspólnie z Marillą podejmują decyzję o przygarnięciu kilkuletnich bliźniąt: Davy’ego i Dory, które wniosą...
Dwujęzyczna adaptacja powieści „Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Alicja w krainie czarów” to atrakcyjna pomoc dla uczących się języka angielskiego. Śledząc losy bohaterów, możemy na bieżąco porównywać tekst angielski i polski. Adaptacja została przygotowana z myślą o czytelnikach średniozaawansowanych, jednak dzięki dwujęzycznej wersji z książki mogą korzystać czytelnicy dopiero rozpoczynający naukę angielskiego. Odnośniki umieszczone przy każdym akap...
Przygody Alicji Pod Ziemią to pierwowzór książki Alicja w Krainie Czarów, którego faksymile Lewis Carroll zdecydował się opublikować w 1896 roku. Oryginalny rękopis, który autor podarował Alice Liddell, dziewczynce na której wzorował tytułową postać, pozbawiony jakichkolwiek ingerencji redakcyjnych czy sugestii wydawcy, został przetłumaczony na język polski z zachowaniem wszystkich oryginalnych detali, które w późniejszych wydaniach uległy zmianie.Czym i jak bardzo Przygody A...
This is a storybook. Boycott, the first story, the simplest school story. A very popular boy is expelled from school, and his less popular friend is ostracized by his peers, so he does not know why. He is also too proud to ask or ask. This is a popular topic in Blaine’s school literature because it is one of the most dramatic things that can happen to a schoolboy.
Do you know what happens to bad rabbits who don’t say please? This, along with „The Story of Miss Moppet” was designed as a simple tale, intended for very young children with an important lesson in good manners, of what befalls a rude little rabbit who doesn’t say „please” when he wants something, but instead just takes it from someone else. The fierce bad rabbit learns the consequences of his unkind actions in an unusual way! „The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit” is number 20...
One of the most famous novels of the Canadian writer Lucy Mod Montgomery. A single brother and sister living on a farm decide to adopt a boy from a shelter in Nova Scotia so that he becomes an au pair. But due to a misunderstanding, on the island of Prince Edward, eleven-year-old Anne, a tireless inventor and a cheerful seeker of adventures, who will forever change their lives, falls. The multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: „Anne of Green Gables”...
„Dick and Dolly” was published in 1909 and told in a manner which makes the story really true to young readers. It is the story of nine-year old orphan twins (brother and sister) who have to move from one aunt’s home to live with some other aunt in Connecticut. This transfer of their dwelling-place didn’t bother Dick and Dolly much, for they were philosophical little people and took things just as they happened, and, moreover, they were so fond of each other, that so long a...
Carolyn Wells (1862-1942) was an American poet and writer of detective and mystery novels, as well as children’s books, best known for her Fleming Stone Detective Stories. Marjorie series is Carolyn Wells’s also known series was publicized as happy books for happy girls. The series includes „Marjorie’s Vacation”, „Marjorie’s Busy Days”, „Marjorie’s New Friend”, „Marjorie in Command”, „Marjorie’s Maytime”, and „Marjorie at Seacote”. Marjorie is a happy American little girl o...
”What a gorgeous day for a sleigh-ride! Did you ever see such sunny, twinkling snow, and such crisp, crackly air? It fairly snaps off as you breathe it! „ Betty McGuire stood on the steps of the veranda as she spoke. Her mother, in the doorway, was smiling down at her, and her pony, Dixie, was jingling his bells and pawing at the snow and ice in the driveway below. It was the first trial of the pretty new cutter, and the joyous excitement of the occasion made Betty’s cheeks...
These are fables – in many there is morality, others clearly contain moralizing. However, fables are not only literary interest. This is a beautiful, filigree prose. The author defined the fable genre very broadly – as a combination of elements of a story about dreams with a moralizing allegory.
“Just So Stories” are usually devoted to how a particular animal changed its initial appearance as a result of the actions of a person or a fairy creature. For example, Keith cannot swallow a person because he once swallowed a Sailor, who secured a wooden lattice inside, which prevents him from swallowing other people. The camel acquired a hump as a punishment from Gene, Lord of All Deserts, for refusing to work. Ethiop painted Leopard spots. Powerful hind legs, a long tail...
If you read the stories of The First Jungle Book, you remember how, attaching the skin of Sher Khan to the Council Rock, Mowgli told the surviving wolves of the Zion pack that he would hunt one from now on, and how his brothers - four wolves - announced that they would hunt with him. But it’s hard to change life in one minute, especially in the jungle. The flock dispersed in disarray; Mowgli went to the cave of his wolves, lay down and slept all day and all night. Then he t...
Here are 10 stories to introduce readers of all ages to Charles Dickens and his Victorian England filled with orphans, expectations, and Christmas spirits, including adaptations of Dickens geared toward young readers, engaging looks into the author’s life, and a few kid-friendly classics straight from the author’s quill. The most famous and funny short stories include the „Child’s Story”, „The Cratchits’ Christmas Dinner”, „A Christmas Carol”, „Hunted Down” and „The Poor Re...
Previously, it never occurred to anyone to write down fairy tales. They were told to each other, passed down from generation to generation... and if not for scientists, such as the Grimm brothers, many stories would not have reached us. The reader is not only acquainted with the famous fairy tales of the Brothers Grimm, but also learns what a fairy tale is, when it appeared and how it changed. He learns about the life of the brothers Jacob and William and about their diffic...
This is a collection of many tales. „Porridge Pot" is a German folk tale from the Grimm Brothers collection, perhaps one of the most famous and beloved from early childhood. This is a story about how one girl received as a present from an old woman a pot that cooks porridge itself, it is only necessary to pronounce a magic spell. The girl carried the pot to her mother, but when she decided to use it, she forgot how to order the pot to stop in time. The pot boiled so much po...
Before the readers comes the legendary fairy tale about Alice. In the second volume of adventures the girl is in Zaderkalli, where the world is a chessboard. There, Alice meets the Black Queen, the White Knight, the Lion, the Unicorn, the Shaltay Boltay and many other incredible characters who have been pleasing to children and adults around the world for almost a hundred and fifty years. Children will love this book.
This is a story about a little girl Alice, who falls into a fantasy world. This world is fundamentally different from where she lived. There are many fantastic substances. She meets her friends and friends and she is the way through. „Alice in Wonderland” is a truly rare book: a book that can entertain and enlighten both a child and an adult.
Who is stealing almost all of the magical treasures of Oz – including the Magic Picture, the Wizard’s black bag, and Glinda’s Book of Records? Dorothy and her friends set out to comb all of Oz, not only for magic stolen from Glinda and the Wizard, but also for the kidnapped princess, Ozma. Along the way, they explore regions never seen in other „Oz” books, meeting strange and interesting people and animals, and falling into peril more than once. Deep in the Winkie Country, ...
Every child knows about Santa Claus, the jolly man who brings gifts to all on Christmas. There are many stories that tell of his life, but the delightful version relayed in „The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus” is by far the most charming and original of all. Orphaned at an infant Claus is found and raised in the magical Forest of Burzee by a wood-nymph Necile, who convinces the great Ak to allow her to raise Claus for her own. As he grows older he meets his fellow human...
Enchanting fantasy novel from creator of beloved „Oz” stories L. Frank Baum whisks young readers away on an exciting underwater adventure! „The Sea Fairies” (1911) was designed as the first volume in a new series for children, to replace the „Oz books”. It was followed by „Sky Island” in 1912. Trot, the hero of the tales is a girl, like Dorothy in the „Oz” stories. An old captain, peg-legged Cap’n Bill taught her to love the sea. The sailor told her that „mermaids is fairie...
