Storytime Readers is a series of storybooks especially designed to provide easy and enjoyable reading practice. They have been carefully graded into three stages and have been written in a way that will help teachers to use them as plays, thus providing an early introduction to drama as a means of learning. Storytime Readers tell tales of friendship, trust, family loyalty, kindness and love using colourful illustrations and dramatised cassettes or CDs to stimulate the imagination of the pupils and encourage them to explore the wonderful world of the English language through literature, poetry and drama. Retold by Jenny Dooley & Vanessa Page.