Penguin Readers Level 2: The Little Prince (ELT Graded Reader)

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Penguin Readers Level 2: The Little Prince (ELT Graded Reader)
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:64
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
ISBN/Barcode 9780241463277
ClassificationsDewey:428.64
Audience
ELT / TEFL
Children / Juvenile

Publishing Details

Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
Publication Date 5 November 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Penguin Readers is a graded reading series for English Language Teaching (ELT) markets, designed for teenagers and young adults learning English as a foreign or second language. With carefully adapted text, new illustrations, language practise activities and additional online resources, the Penguin Readers series introduces language learners to bestselling authors and compelling content. Titles include popular classics, exciting contemporary fiction, and thought-provoking non-fiction. The Little Prince, a Level 2 Reader, is A1+ in the CEFR framework. Sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the future tenses will and going to, present continuous for future meaning, and comparatives and superlatives. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear on most pages. A man crashes in the desert and meets the little prince. Through his pictures and stories, the man learns about the important things in life - like love and friends.

Author Biography

Writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944), was born into an aristocratic French family at the turn of the century. Saint-Exupery was preoccupied with aviation from a young age; a passion which would lead him into the French Air Force. His first two books, Southern Mail and Night Flight, are distinguished by a poetic evocation of the romance and discipline of flying. Later works, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Flight to Arras, stress his humanistic philosophy. Saint-Exupery's popular children's book The Little Prince is also read by adults for its allegorical meaning. In 1944, Saint-Exupery's plane disappeared during a mission in World War II.