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Contents:Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of the printing pressLouis Braille, creator of an alphabet for blind peopleAlexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephoneThomas Edison, inventor of the electric light bulbGuglielmo Marconi, inventor of the wireless systemJohn Logie Baird, inventor of the televisionBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 6,805Headword count:...
Contents:Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, who helped humans to flyLouis Blériot, the first person to cross the sea in an aeroplaneCharles Lindbergh, first to cross the Atlantic aloneAmelia Earhart, the first woman to fly alone across the AtlanticAmy Johnson, the British woman who broke flying recordsBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 9,498Headword count: 906Each...
Contents:Leonardo da Vinci who painted the Mona LisaChristopher Wren who rebuilt LondonAntoni Gaudí who built the Sagrada Familia in BarcelonaPablo Picasso, the famous Spanish painterFrida Kahlo, the famous Mexican female artistBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 10,172Headword count: 941Each book includes a free CD with a full recording of each story.PLUS:...
Contents:Edward Jenner, the man who fought the terrible disease, smallpoxFlorence Nightingale, the nurse known as ‘the lady with the lamp’Elizabeth Garrett, England’s first female doctorCarl Jung, the doctor who wanted to understand the human mindJonas Salk who defeated the dangerous illness, polioChristiaan Barnard, the first man to...
Contents:Johann Sebastian Bach who wrote the Brandenburg ConcertosWolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the child geniusGiuseppe Verdi who wrote the operas Aida and La TraviataJohann Strauss, ‘The Waltz King’Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky who wrote the ballet Swan LakeIrving Berlin who wrote There’s No Business Like Show BusinessBRITISH ENGLISHWord count:...
Contents:Galileo who wanted to show that the earth went around the sunRené Descartes, the Frenchman who famously said ‘I think, therefore I am’Sir Isaac Newton who proved how gravity worksCarl Friedrich Gauss, ‘the Prince of Mathematicians’Charles Babbage who invented computersAda Lovelace who wrote the first computer...
Contents:Geoffrey Chaucer, writer of the first great works of English LiteratureWilliam Shakespeare, writer of the greatest plays in historyCharles Dickens who wanted to make England a better placeVictor Hugo, the French writer who cared about the poorLeo Tolstoy, the man who wrote War and PeaceRudyard Kipling who wrote The Jungle Book and won a Nobel...
Contents:Marco Polo who taught the world about ChinaIbn Battuta who travelled to 44 countriesChristopher Columbus who discovered new worldsJames Cook, first to sail around the world in both directionsDavid Livingstone who explored AfricaYuri Gagarin, the first man to go into spaceBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 14,679Headword count: 1,163Each book includes a...
Twelve Years a Slave is the extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man living in New York State who, in 1841, was kidnapped and sold into slavery. This simplified version condenses Northup’s memoirs for students of English and is interspersed with stills from the 2013 Oscar award winning film.This range of Scholastic ELT readers...
Contents:Alfred Nobel, creator of the Nobel PrizeAndrew Carnegie, the businessman who built libraries for poor peopleJohn D. Rockefeller who made money from oil and gave it all awayThomas Barnardo who created homes for poor childrenHenry Wellcome who used his money for medical researchMadam C. J. Walker who gave her money to the African-American...
Contents:Pablo Casals, the Catalan cello-playerLouis Armstrong, the American trumpet-player and singerFrank Sinatra, the Italian-American singer and actorÉdith Piaf, France's famous singing starMaria Callas, the Greek opera singerElvis Presley, the man who changed pop musicBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 14,723Headword count: 1,121Each book includes a...
Contents:Alessandro Volta, inventor of the batteryMichael Faraday, inventor of the electric motorMarie Curie, famous for her work on radioactivityAlbert Einstein, creator of the Theory of RelativityAlexander Fleming, discoverer of the first antibioticLinus Pauling, chemist and peace activistBRITISH ENGLISHWord count: 15,287Headword count: 1,631 Each book...
Contents:Voltaire, the French writer who believed in equality for allCharlotte Brontë, the British novelist who wrote Jane EyreMark Twain, the American who wrote Huckleberry Finn and Tom SawyerJacques Prévert, the writer known in France as ‘the People’s Poet’Ayn Rand, whose writing expressed her own philosophical...
Contents:Henry J Heinz, the man who invented tomato ketchupWilliam Lever who made millions from soapMichael Marks, founder of the Marks and Spencer storesHenry Ford, who mass-produced cars and made them affordableCoco Chanel, the businesswoman who changed fashion for womenRay Kroc, the man who created the McDonald’s chain of restaurantsBRITISH...
Wallace, who is an inventor, and his faithful dog, Gromit, have started a new business – a bakery. They have converted their home into a windmill, where they make the bread, and then they deliver it around the neighbourhood. Wallace is happy with their new life, despite the fact that twelve local bakers have been found dead in the last few months....
One day, a great storm takes Dorothy, and her dog Toto, to Oz. They have to follow the yellow brick road and find the Wizard of Oz to go home. Dorothy meets new friends; a scarecrow, a tin man, and a lion. Can they help her find the Wizard, and go home to her family?Penguin Kids are six level simplified story books for children learning English. MP3...