Read it Yourself with Ladybird Collection 50 Books Box Set Pack (Level 1, 2, 3, 4)

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Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling reading series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. They knew it was bad. He couldn’t move. Carol called 999 and after what felt like hours the paramedics arrived. Mary couldn’t help getting upset with them: she had no one else to blame. They seemed so slow. But he was a big man, hard to move. They got him on a trolley and took him out to the ambulance. They said she could follow on, so Mary called Jacquie and they drove to the hospital, the Queen Alexandra in Portsmouth, where they found him on a ward. In this classic fairy tale, a little old woman makes a gingerbread man - but then he runs away! Is there anyone who can catch the gingerbread man?

Topic: Adventure Animals Childhood Family and friends Food Health History Kindness Magic Natural world Oceans Science and technology Sport and hobbies Travel It wasn’t that the home didn’t feel real. It was more like a parallel society, where life moved a little slower and with greater gentleness, according to established routines. A cup of tea in bed at six, a wash, breakfast, coffee in the lounge at 10, lunch at 12, a cup of tea at two, an afternoon activity, high tea at four, telly, another wash, a hot drink, bed. Then there were the other, regular humiliations. Being washed, for one. Not being able to get out of a chair, or off the toilet. She often felt reduced. There was an unavoidable loss of status. People don’t tend to listen to the old. It’s different, meeting someone late in life. You know you won’t have long, so the love feels more urgent. It’s closer to first love, though it’s probably the last. There’s none of the logistics that can cloud a relationship in middle age: who’s doing what, who’s paying the bills, who’s cooking. Mary and Derek had nothing to do, or none of those things anyway.In the daytime, awake, now, her thoughts are mostly of Derek. She has his old dressing gown, some of his ashes and a teddy Kerry had made for her out of one of his shirts. She has his diaries, too, so she can read about what they did together, and other things she didn’t know. February, this year, a winter’s day, fish and chips for lunch, so it must have been Friday. Mary and Derek were sitting in their chairs, as usual, talking about something, probably what they’d watched on the television or read in the paper. Derek said he needed the loo, because they always told each other what they were doing, and he got up and said he had to see a man about a dog, because he was always saying things like that, funny sayings. Peter Rabbit: Island Adventure is a Level 1 Read it yourself book, suitable for very early readers who are ready to take their first steps in reading. A small number of frequently repeated words, simple facts, clearly labelled images and captions reinforce key information. Includes contents, index and a picture glossary. Read more Details

Mary wanted to run faster. Her father told her to join an athletics club, and Mary wondered if she was brave enough to take the bus on her own. She was. They served hot Ribena at the club. It wasn’t long before she was running 100 metres, 400 metres, hurdles, then for the English schools’ national team. One time, she won a medal, a dull old thing: third place.

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Mary’s happened at her daughter Jacquie’s house. She’d moved there after a few years living alone, then in assisted accommodation. Finally, at Jacquie’s, she fell on some hard slate tiles in the bathroom. Soon, she couldn’t get out of the bath, so Jacquie started bringing her into Easterlea once a week to wash. The Gingerbread Man is a Level 2 Read it yourself title, ideal for children who have received some initial reading instruction and can read short, simple sentences with help. Read more Details Without him, without the distraction and company of him, she depends on other things to enliven the daily repetition. Spillages, stumbles, visitors. Someone will come in to see their mum. Everyone stops by Mary’s chair to have a chat. She’s the hungriest for interaction. Sometimes, the staff will put someone in the chair next to her because they know she’ll talk to them.