Everybody has bad dreams. Horrible things move towards you in the dark, things you can hear but not see. Then you wake up, in your own warm bed, and turn over to go back to sleep. But imagine that you ... Read more
One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. ‘It’s all rubbish,’ he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He h ... Read more
One day, a farmer tells a farm boy to take everything out of an old building and throw it away. ‘It’s all rubbish,’ he says. In the middle of all the rubbish, the boy finds a beautiful old piano. He h ... Read more
A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress ? ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but ... Read more
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A housewife, a tramp, a lawyer, a waitress, an actress ? ordinary people living ordinary lives in New York at the beginning of the twentieth century. The city has changed greatly since that time, but ... Read more
Allegra is an unusual name. It means ‘happy’ in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to ... Read more
Allegra is an unusual name. It means ‘happy’ in Italian, but the little girl in this story is sometimes very sad. She is only five years old, but she tells Adrian, her new friend, that she is going to ... Read more
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The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked ? with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened ? on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So ho ... Read more
The room was on the fourth floor, and the door was locked - with the key on the inside. The windows were closed and fastened - on the inside. The chimney was too narrow for a cat to get through. So ho ... Read more
All he wanted to do was to marry the woman he loved. But his country said ‘No!’ He was Edward VIII, King of Great Britain, King of India, King of Australia, and King of thirty-nine other countries. An ... Read more
