For thousands of years the dead body of the young king Tutankhamun slept under the sands of Egypt. Then, in the autumn of 1922, Howard Carter and his friends find and open his tomb door. These are exciting times, and Carter’s young helper Tariq tells the story in his diary. But soon people begin to […]
A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress – ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but its people are much the same. Some are rich, some are poor, some are happy, some are sad, some have […]
«Matty Doolin» is fifteen and is leaving school in a few weeks’ time, He wants to work with animals and get a job on a farm. His parents say he’s too young to leave home. They also say they can’t go on a camping holiday with his friends…
A human being is a soft, weak creature. It needs constant supplies of air, water, and food; it has to spend a third of its life asleep, and it can’t work if the temperature is too hot or too cold. But a “Robot” is made of strong metal. It uses electrical energy directly, never sleeps, […]
When the children dug a hole in the gravel-pit, they were very surprised at what they found. ‘It’ was a Psammead, a sand-fairy, thousands of years old. It was a strange little thing – fat and furry, and with eyes on long stalks. It was often very cross and unfriendly, but it could give wishes […]
Is there really a tunnel under the old fort? Is it magic that makes the workmen disappar or is there some more evil explanation? Three friends thik they’ve found something a bit strange going on and they’re determinated to find out more even if it means creeping out at night. Follow them into some dangerous […]
Charles Dickens gives us two ghosts stories: the first is «The Signalman«, where a visitor comes to a signal-box next to a railway tunnel and the signalman teels him a frightening story. Is there a ghost on the railway? The second story is «The Ghost at the Trial» where Mr. Fothergill listens to a trial […]
It is 1800. Jenny Tinker arrives in New York with her father, Sam. The Tinkers are English. They’re starting a new life in America. They want a farm, but they haven’t got any money. What can they do? Stephen Rabley tells us how They became to get their “Tinkers Farm”.
«Inspector Thackeray Arrives» tells us about three adventures of the detective. He has to find the criminal. That’s not easy, but the criminal makes several mistakes. Can you see the mistakes? Can you find the criminals?
I felt vey unhappy. I was afraid to go home. ‘What will my grandmother say?’ I asked myself. ‘What will she think? I will be sent away from school expelled!’ What is the story that T. C. Jupp tells us in «Winning and Losing«?