French As a Second Language - Reading

Buri and the Marrow (French-English) $23.95

In this famous Bengali story an old woman travels through the forest to meet her daughter. On her way she meets a fox, a tiger and a lion - and they all want to eat her! Buri tells them to wait until she returns, when...

The Three Billy Goats Gruff (French-English) $20.95

The three billy goats need to cross the bridge to get to the fresh, green grass. But under the bridge lives a fierce and hungry Troll. The first goat tells the Troll to wait for his brother who is much bigger than him. The...

Don't Cry Sly! (French-English) $23.95

How's Sly going to catch Little Red? By being a cunning fox. How's Little Red going to escape? By being a lucky hen. How's Little Red going to stop Sly from coming after her? By being a kind and clever hen. But how's Sly...

The Giant Turnip (French-English) $20.95

This traditional story is set in an inner city school where the children have grown an enormous turnip! How can they pull it out? First the boys try and then the girls but the turnip will not move. They all try together but...

The Pied Piper (French-English) $23.95

Rats! Big rats, small rats, young rats and old rats! Enter a mysterious stranger... This sensitive retelling of the famous Pied Piper legend raises many moral and social issues as well as inspiring drama and music.

Not Again, Red Riding Hood! (French-English) $23.95

Little Red Riding Hood has ten cookies to take to her dad. On the way she meets some familiar, and hungry, characters. Rapunzel, the three bears, three billy goats. But as always there is a problem, a wolf is in the way...

The Little Red Hen and The Grains of Wheat (French-English) $20.95

Little Red Hen finds some grains of wheat but when she asks the cat, the dog and the goose to help her plant them, they are all too busy. When Little Red Hen has finally grown the wheat, harvested it, turned it into flour...

Deepak's Diwali (French-English) $23.95

It's the worst Diwali ever! Dad has forgotten the sparklers, the fairylights are broken and, after hearing the story of Rama and Sita, Deepak is sure that Ravana the demon king is after him. Part of Mantra Lingua's...

Goose Fables (French-English) $22.95

This book includes two well known fables in one book wittily retold by Shaun Chatto and gloriously illustrated by Jago. Aesop-???+-?-+s The Goose that Laid the Golden Egg, set in a Europe of times gone by, explores...

Keeping Up with Cheetah (French-English) $22.95

Cheetah liked telling jokes and running. His best friend, Hippopotamus, laughed at all his jokes even though they weren't very funny. But that wasn't enough for Cheetah, who wanted a friend who could also run. Find out how...

Goldilocks and the Three Bears with CD (French-English) $22.95

Ideal for parents of kids ages two to seven who want to expose their children to a second language. Ana Lomba is an internationally recognized language-learning expert specializing in teaching parents and educators how to...

I'm Coming to Get You (French-English) $20.95

After chomping his way through the planets of his own galaxy, a hungry monster sets off in his spaceship in search of a new planet to gobble up. He sets his sights on a pretty blue planet called Earth. Little Tommy Brown,...

Jill and the Beanstalk (French-English) $23.95

Told in rhyme, this is an exciting new version of an old favorite where Jill takes on the evil giant to save her family. Throughout the story she meets characters from various nursery rhymes such as Little Bo Peep, the Queen...