Book Description
About Happy Readers: Classics
This series was developed to help beginner English learners and middle or high school students to improve their reading proficiency while enjoying the world’s classic stories. The series consists of 6 steps and was rewritten with varying levels by native English authors and thus readers can make a choice of what to read for their own level. Quizzes to reinforce key vocabulary, sentences, and reading comprehension as well as corresponding listening activities are included to promote both reading and listening skills at the same time.
• Presenting stories with varying levels of sophistication — from 250-word books for beginners to 1,000-word books for low-advanced students (a total of 60 books in 6 levels)
•Offering step-by-step learning approaches providing true enjoyment of English learning
•Featuring ‘Comprehension Quiz’ to check on comprehension as well as captivating illustrations on each Page
About This Book
Hansel and Gretel
Hansel and Gretel, a poor woodcutter’s children, were hated by their stepmother. She persuaded her husband to abandon them in the forest so that she and her husband might not starve. Hansel overheard her plan and prepared white stones. He dropped stones one by one to mark the way home when he and his sister walked into the deep forest with father.
Rapunzel
A couple with no children was caught by a witch because they broke into her garden and picked rampion flowers. They begged for mercy, but the witch took away their newborn child and named her “Rapunzel”. The witch locked her in a tall tower in the middle of the forest when she was 12. She had long blonde hair that had never been cut. One day, a prince rode through the forest and found her. With the help of the prince and her long hair, she tried to escape from the tall tower and the wicked witch.
Book Titles in This Series
Happy Readers Basic-1. Hansel and Gretel / Rapunzel
Happy Readers Basic-2. Jack and the Beanstalk / Goldilocks and the Three Bears / The Little Red Hen
Happy Readers Basic-3. Thumbelina / The Ugly Duckling
Happy Readers Basic-4. The Flying Trunk / The Story of a Mother
Happy Readers Basic-5. Puss in Boots / Little Red Riding Hood
Happy Readers Basic-6. Snow White / The Elves and the Shoemaker
Happy Readers Basic-7. The Nutcracker / Swan Lake
Happy Readers Basic-8. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Happy Readers Basic-9. The Selfish Giant
Happy Readers Basic-10. Pinocchio
Happy Readers 1-1 Beauty and the Beast
Happy Readers 1-2 The Little Mermaid
Happy Readers 1-3 The Christmas Stories
Happy Readers 1-4 The Little Match Girl and the other stories
Happy Readers 1-5 Bible Stories
Happy Readers 1-6 Cinderella / Sleeping Beauty
Happy Readers 1-7 The Jungle Book
Happy Readers 1-8 Heidi
Happy Readers 1-9 The Arabian Nights
Happy Readers 1-10 Uncle Tom's Cabin
Happy Readers 2-1 Aesop’s Fables
Happy Readers 2-2 The Great Stone Face
Happy Readers 2-3 Anne of the Green Gables
Happy Readers 2-4 A Dog of Flanders
Happy Readers 2-5 Daddy-Long-Legs
Happy Readers 2-6 Bible Stories 2
Happy Readers 2-7 Peter Pan
Happy Readers 2-8 The Happy Prince / The Nightingale and the Rose
Happy Readers 2-9 The Count of Monte Cristo
Happy Readers 2-10 The Stars / The Last Lesson
Happy Readers 3-1 Tolstoy’s Short Stories
Happy Readers 3-2 The Christmas Carol
Happy Readers 3-3 The Secret Garden
Happy Readers 3-4 The Story of Helen Keller
Happy Readers 3-5 The Merchant of Venice
Happy Readers 3-6 The Wizard of OZ
Happy Readers 3-7 Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
Happy Readers 3-8 Robin Hood
Happy Readers 3-9 Around the World in Eighty Days
Happy Readers 3-10 Little Women
Happy Readers 4-1 The Opera Stories
Happy Readers 4-2 The Phantom of the Opera
Happy Readers 4-3 The Little Prince
Happy Readers 4-4 Don Quixote
Happy Readers 4-5 Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Happy Readers 4-6 Waiting for Godot
Happy Readers 4-7 The Invisible Man
Happy Readers 4-8 O. Henry’s Short Stories
Happy Readers 4-9 Les Miserables
Happy Readers 4-10 The Age of Fable
Happy Readers 5-1 Sense and Sensibility
Happy Readers 5-2 The Old Man and the Sea
Happy Readers 5-3 Great Expectations
Happy Readers 5-4 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Happy Readers 5-5 Poe's Short Stories
Happy Readers 5-6 Dracula
Happy Readers 5-7 Romeo and Juliet
Happy Readers 5-8 The Scarlet Letter
Happy Readers 5-9 Anna Karenina
Happy Readers 5-10 Great Speeches