Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 1+ (Age 4½ - 5)The Big Carrot is based on the traditional tale of The Enormous Turnip. The carrot is stuck in the ground - how many people will it take to pull i
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 1+ (Age 4½ - 5)Lots of Nuts is based on Aesop's fable The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse. Tim, a country mouse, goes to town but will he decide to stay there?
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 2 (Age 4½ - 5)Dick and His Cat is based on the traditional tale of Dick Whittington, about the boy who goes to London to earn his fortune. Little does he know ho
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 2 (Age 4½ - 5)The King and His Wish is based on the Caribbean tale The King Who Wanted to Touch the Moon, about a king whose demands get him into trouble, as he
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 2 (Age 4½ - 5)Rabbit on the Run is based on Aesop's fable The Tortoise and the Hare, about the rabbit whose complacency leads him to underestimate the tortoise,
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 1+ (Age 4½ - 5)Get the Rat! is a humorous new story, based on the familiar structure of traditional tales. A rat needs to be caught in the palace, but where is i
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 2 (Age 4½ - 5)I Will Get You is based on the Norwegian folk tale of The Three Billy Goats Gruff, about the goats who manage to outwit a greedy troll living under
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 6 (Age 6 - 6½)The Frog Prince is a very old tale, first written down by the Brothers Grimm. It tells the story of a princess who promises to be a frog's friend a
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 7 (Age 6½ - 7)Aladdin is based on the traditional tale from the Middle East of a boy who finds a magic lamp containing a genie who grants him three wishes. What
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 8 (Age 7 - 7½)Twelve Dancing Princesses is a German rags-to-riches folk tale. There is something strange happening at the palace, where the King's twelve daughte
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 8 (Age 7 - 7½)How Anansi Got His Stories is a tale of a familiar character from many African and Caribbean tales. Anansi the trickster wants everyone to listen t
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 5 (Age 5½ - 6)The Moon in the Pond is a Brer Rabbit tale from African-American traditional stories. Rabbit tells Bear and Fox that the moon has fallen in the pon
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 5 (Age 5½ - 6)Jack sells his family's cow for five beans. His mum is very cross and she throws the beans away. Overnight a huge beanstalk grows in the garden, wh
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 5 (Age 5½ - 6)The Moon in the Pond is a Brer Rabbit tale from African-American traditional stories. Rabbit tells Bear and Fox that the moon has fallen in the pon
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 5 (Age 5½ - 6)Ho is given a golden paintbrush in return for his kindness to an old man. Magic things begin to happen when Ho starts to paint ...This charming sto
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 4 (Age 5 - 5½)The Foolish Fox is based on the traditional tale of the lazy fox who does not like working. He asks some sheep to farm the land for him, in return
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 4 (Age 5 - 5½)Three Rocks is based on the traditional tale Stone Soup. A poor man arrives in town with three magic rocks, promising that he can use them to make
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 9 (Age 7½ - 8)The Children of Lir is an Irish legend of a wicked queen who wants the King to love her more than his four children. She decides to use her magic t
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 9 (Age 7½ - 8)East of the Sun, West of the Moon is the tale of Astrid, who has to rescue her prince from the clutches of the troll Long Nose. Will she be able to
Oxford Reading Tree: Trad Tales: Level 8 (Age 7 - 7½)Finn MacCool and the Giant's Causeway is based on an Irish tale about the creation of the Giant's Causeway. Finn, an Irish giant, and Angus, a Scot
