Product Description

Award-winning original fiction for learners of English. At seven levels, from Starter to Advanced, this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's ability. In Cambridge, Fanella bravely faces the challenge of adopting a child alone after her partner leaves her. Fanella and five-year-old Ellie get off to a rocky start, but Fanella patiently steers their relationship on to more solid ground. Meanwhile, her relationship with Rod, Ellie's teacher and a married man, is a little more complicated. Paperback-only version. Also available with Audio CDs including complete text recordings from the book.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #591657 in Books
• Published on: 2001-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 112 pages

Review
'What distinguishes the series from all the others is the zest and freshness of the text. Where the emphasis in other series is on plain and straightforward language, Cambridge English Reading texts typically use very modern expressions and the dialogue is faster moving. This has an impact on the quality of the audio cassettes, which make for very enjoyable listening.' David R. Hill, Survey Review: Readers, ELT Journal

'It was only a matter of time before a major ELT publisher set out to challenge the market dominance of Penguin Classics in the area of readers … CUP have hit back admirably. With something for everyone in your classes, this series is well worth investing in. In fact, it's going to be a difficult act to follow by other publishers.' IATEFL Issues

'The series breaks new ground in two respects. The first is the light and informal style of writing. It is notoriously difficult to write fluent prose using restricted lexis and syntax. Part of the secret is to use word and grammar lists flexibly; but it requires flair and a good ear to produce prose and dialogue that read so well and give such a genuine flavour of modern idiom.' English Teaching Professional

'These were a very good read: exciting fast-moving stories at all levels, and a good mixture of subjects. Most touched on up-to-date themes, such as corruption, refugees, psychology, hunger, feminism, or ecology without being prosy, or moralising.' BaNina Vivanco, SATEFL Newsletter Vol 19 No 3

'This is a well presented, authentic looking series of readers that students should enjoy. They are graded into five levels, and the accompanying cassette will be useful, especially for pronunciation – audio versions are very popular with students.' Josephine Caruana, Network News, Issue 34

Customer Reviews

Learning English as well as enjoying reading
It is a short story as learning purposes demand, where the facts have to develop fast in order to finish the story quickly, and at the same time it has to tell you something. It is structured in short chapters, each one finishes with a new event not told but leaved it on the air, you necessarily have to continue reading if you want to know how it will all turn out. While this little narrative technique, leaving continuously new events at the end of each chapter, the author achieves to catch the reader's attention by creating this little hook. Consequently he becomes interested in knowing what is going to happen next. So, despite its teaching purpose, the reader gets to enjoy it as it does not contain much description, but at the same time, as it is aimed at advanced readers, the use of formal language combined and enriched with phrasal verb structures from the every day English language is not missing. Moreover, we can find descriptive adjectives from the written language without falling in a tiring description. In this way, Penny Hancock achieves both purposes, learning English as well as enjoying reading.