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Mrs Frisby and the Rats of Nimh – They are not like other rats. They work at night, in secret. Time is running out for Mrs Frisby. She must move her family of mice before the farmer destroys their home. But her youngest son, Timothy, is too ill to survive the move. Help comes in…
This collection of stories is for key stage 4. Each genre includes a pre-twentieth century story and tales by twentieth century writers. Genres include: Horror, Crime and Detection, Ghosts and Mystery, Love, Science Fiction. Each section includes activities for comparison work as well as suggestions for student’s own creative writing.
This Reader should be used with our English First Additional Language Grade 8 Learner’s Book and Teacher’s Guide.
Oxford School Shakespeare is an acclaimed edition especially designed for students, with accessible on-page notes and explanatory illustrations, clear background information, and rigorous but accessible scholarly credentials. Coriolanus is a popular text for study by secondary students the world over. This edition includes illustrations, preliminary notes, reading lists (including websites) and classroom notes. This title is suitable for…
Aimed at both teachers and pupils at higher and lower secondary levels, this lively book offers a practical first introduction to the plays of Shakespeare. This volume is part of a series which uses classroom drama to teach English as a second language. Speaking the parts helps children to increase their confidence with English and…
Mponyane is very worried about his friend Frank, and knows that he is in grave danger. But Mponyane was born deaf and connot articulate a call for help. He cannot hear what people sya, he can only feel their unhappiness and fear. He knows that he must do something, anything to help save his friend.
IN EXCELLENT CONDITION Plot summary From what is implied to be a sanatorium, Holden, the narrator and protagonist, tells the story of his adventures before the previous Christmas. The story begins with Holden at Pencey Prep School on his way to the house of his history teacher, Spencer, so that he can say goodbye. He…
Lady Windermere’s Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; An Ideal Husband; The Importance of Being Earnest A newly edited volume of some of Wilde’s greatest plays. Includes arguably the greatest farcical comedy in English, The Importance of Being Earnest. New to this Edition: Modernized spelling and punctuation. A scholarly introduction and detailed annotation.
Woza Albert!” is based on one dazzlingly simple idea – that the Second Coming of Jesus Christ should take place in present-day South Africa. This brilliant two-man show from the Market Theatre, Johannesburg, took the Edinburgh Festival then London by storm in September 1982, playing to standing ovations every night. It was also seen in…
When it was first produced in 1959, A Raisin in the Sun was awarded the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for that season and hailed as a watershed in American drama. A pioneering work by an African-American playwright, the play was a radically new representation of black life. “A play that changed American…
Play version of this novel that was a hit with adults and teenagers alike Play version of this novel that was a hit with adults and teenagers alike In his secret diary, British teenager Adrian Mole excruciatingly details every morsel of his turbulent adolescence. Mixed in with daily reports about the zit sprouting on his…
Almal is baie opgewonde oor Thomas se kans om ‘n sepiester te wees. Hy het immers ‘n rol gekry in Die Malans van Marthaheim, die gewildste TV-reeks ooit! En sy medester is boonop die aantreklike Fleur Vermaak. Maar dis die minste van Thomas se probleme. Hy wonder hoe op aarde hy sy plek in die…
This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss. Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in school, Leslie Burke, outpaces him. The two become fast friends and…
Pygmalion – here presented in its definitive 1941 version, with footnotes indicating the textual variants from the first volume edition of 1916 – has spawned a great number of adaptations, among them the famous 1956 Broadway musical My Fair Lady, and shows ancient myth’s undiminished ability to find new incarnations in modern life.
Eleanor Baker skryf met ‘n satiriese aanslag en fyn insig oor die wel en wee van ‘n stadsgesin wat bestaan uit ‘n vergeetagtige ma, ‘n gemoedelike pa, Iris en haar twee susters, Elsa en Kara, hul “Hollandse” hond, ‘n huishulp wat presies weet wat sy wil hê en ‘n buite-aardse beskermengel met ‘n aardse humorsin….
An ancient bridge collapses over a gorge in Peru, hurling five people into the abyss. It seems a meaningless human tragedy. But one witness, a Franciscan monk, believes the deaths might not be as random as they appear. Convinced that the disaster is a punishment sent from Heaven, the monk sets out to discover all…
The Catcher in the Rye is the ultimate novel for disaffected youth, but it’s relevant to all ages. The story is told by Holden Caulfield, a seventeen-year-old dropout who has just been kicked out of his fourth school. Throughout, Holden dissects the ‘phony’ aspects of society, and the ‘phonies’ themselves: the headmaster whose affability depends on…
Dalene Matthee
Die digbundel is tematies gerangskik en van woordverklarings en kommentaar voorsien. Bevat outobiografiese bydraes deur kontemporere asook ouer digters, ‘n tydlyn en besondere illustrasies deur Jan Visser.
This edition of Macbeth is part of the groundbreaking Cambridge School Shakespeare series established by Rex Gibson. Remaining faithful to the series’ active approach it treats the play as a script to be acted, explored and enjoyed. As well as the complete script of the play, you will find a variety of classroom-tested activities, an…
The internationally best-selling story of survival against the odds. There was a wild crashing sound, a ripping of metal, and the plane blew through the trees, out over the water and down, down to slam into the lake…Brian is a city boy. Not used to living rough. Until his plane crashlands in the Canadian wilderness….
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