Best Selling Books by Dodie Smith

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. I Capture the Castle, a Level 4 Reader, is A2+ in the CEFR framework. The text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, introducing more complex uses of present perfect simple, passives, phrasal verbs and simple relative clauses. It is well supported by illustrations, which appear regularly. The poor Mortmain family move to an old castle. Mr Mortmain''s daughter Rose wants a rich husband. Her sister, Cassandra, wants to be a writer like her father. But when the Mortmains meet their two rich neighbours, Simon and Neil Cotton, both Rose and Cassandra have their lives changed forever.

Reissue of this lost classic from an instantly recognised name in children''s literature. Twins Pam and Tom embark on a night time adventure, when 4 mysterious kittens appear at midnight to drink the milk they''ve left out for the hedgehogs.

From the author of I Capture the Castle comes a delightful, funny tale of complicated sibling relationships, friendship, and forbidden love, set in 1970s England Suspecting her husband, George, of dalliances in the city, May decides it is high time the family moved to the country. Determined to create the perfect home there, she finds an idyllic country house set in a lilac grove and sets about furnishing it properly and cooking enormous meals. She even manages to convince her less well-off sister, June, to move into a cozy cottage on the grounds with her husband Robert. This new set-up is very much a family affair as June''s husband Robert just happens to be George''s brother: the two sisters are married to two brothers. At first both families seem to be settling in well, sharing delicious meals and having fun times together. Their grown-up children, Hugh and Corinna, visit from London and there even seems to be a hint of romance in the air for them, while the surviving grandparents from both sides of the family move into the big house and forge new friendships. But the arrival of a cantankerous great aunt will reveal the cracks in the family''s tangled relationships and will even threaten to unveil the greatest secret of all--while May thought moving George to the country would put a stop to his affairs, he has begun to fall in love with his sister-in-law, June. The death of a beloved character will, however, turn the tables again and lead to the ultimate, happy, denouement.

Conhecida e renomada pelo filme da Disney, Os 101 dálmatas é uma história clássica de 1956 que ainda tem muito a contar. A aventura se inicia quando os dálmatas Pongo e Missis – cachorros dos humanos de estimação sr. e sra. Clemente – partem em busca de seus filhotes perdidos. Enquanto o sr. Clemente anuncia o desparecimento em jornais e acalma a esposa e as duas babás, Pongo fareja o sequestro de seus filhotes. Astuto, ele suspeita de Cruella DeMonyo. Nessa história, a habilidade, a lealdade e a amizade caninas dão provas de que não só os humanos são racionais.

Il romanzo originale dal quale sono stati tratti il cartone animato e poi il film. Pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1956, continua a incantare generazioni di bambini. Una vera e propria rivelazione per gli amanti del film Disney.

Två dalmatiner och så kanske några valpar, det var vad herr och fru Dearly hade tänkt sig från början. Missis och Pongo är ett stiligt hundpar, och valparna är bedårande när de anländer, trots att de är hela femton stycken! Och så är det ju Perdita förstås, den övergivna dalmatinertiken som fru Dearly tagit hand om. Så nu är det allt som allt arton hundar hemma hos Dearlys. Det är då den ondskefulla Cruella de Vil knackar på. Hon som alltid bär päls, sover i hermelinlakan och vars make är pälshandlare. I samma stund som hon får syn på de vackra hundarna så får hon sin fruktansvärda idé att man kan tillverka unika pälsverk av dalmatinernas skinn! När Cruella helt fräckt stjäl alla femton valpar ger sig Pongo och Missis ut på en farlig jakt efter sina små ungar. Det är en kamp mot klockan. Runtom i hela England har det försvunnit dalmatinervalpar och panikslagna mattar och hussar letar desperat, precis som Dearlys. Det gör i sin tur Cruella desperat om det ska bli några pälsar, måste valparna dödas innan någon hittar dem! Boken utkom första gången 1956 i England, och har sedan dess tryckts i många upplagor.Historien har också blivit både animerad film och spelfilm. B. Wahlströms moderna klassiker är både älskade böcker som kanske fallit i glömska och böcker som aldrig riktigt lämnat läsarnas medvetande. De riktar sig till både de äldre och yngre bokslukarna, till de som läser på egen hand och de som läser tillsammans med en vuxen.