Oliver Twist naît orphelin dans l'Angleterre du XIXe siècle. Mal nourri, exploité dès ses plus jeunes années, le pauvre garçon endure tout avec patience. Mais un jour, il refuse les traitements injustes qu'il subit et fuit vers Londres. Recueilli par une bande de jeunes voleurs, il découvre alors un autre monde, tout aussi cruel. Le destin cessera-t-il de s'acharner contre Oliver ?
Read it yourself is a series of popular, traditional tales written in a simple way for children who are learning to read. The Pied Piper of Hamelin is at level 4, which contains longer stories for more fluent readers.
Gaskell's best known work is set in a small rural town, inhabited largely by women. This is a community that runs on cooperation and gossip, at the very heart of which are the daughters of the former rector: Miss Deborah Jenkyns and her sister Miss Matty.
This imaginative and hilarious collection of colourful, humorous and meticulously-illustrated cartoons captures with great affection both the joys and frustrations of caring for these lifelong companions.
A superb and wickedly entertaining collection of illustrations celebrating how dogs and their owners resemble each other in so many ways.