First Story Tapes

Roderick Huny, Read by Miriam Margolyes, Michael Elphick, Hannah Gordon and Leo Wringer
Published by Oxford Reading Tree
, six cassettes each 14 mins average, with 12 paperbacks, No ISBN, ££25; pack of six books £5.50

The respected Oxford Reading Tree has been extended with 12 wordless picture books full of domestic detail which accompany six cassettes in a most prestigious box. The stories are all professionally read in different voices and accents. The pack is to help the pre-reader understand story sequence and structure and re-tell it to an adult, whether parent or teacher. Also on offer is a Teachers' Extended Stories pack, full of questions and folow-up suggestions.

Reviewed in BfK No. 81 (July 1993) by Rachel Redford (RR)


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