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Jeffers
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 Message 9 of 15
13 January 2013 at 10:16pm | IP Logged 
Juаn wrote:
The Easy French Reader w/CD-ROM is still available new here and here. It is very good and a bargain.

I agree. That's why I included it in my original post. ;) (EDIT, sorry, just realized that you were showing us where to get the version with CD! Thanks!)

Quique wrote:
I've just ordered these:
First French Reader: A Beginner's Dual-Language Book
French Stories / Contes Français (A Dual-Language Book)

These also look good, but they'll have to wait:
Short Stories in French: New Penguin Parallel Text
French Short Stories 1 / Nouvelles Francaises 1: Parallel Text (Penguin Parallel Text)

All the above have original French text on one page, and their English translation on the other page, so you don't need to go back and forth to the dictionary.


Thank you for mentioning these. I was aware of them, and they all look good. It should be mentioned that they are definitely for intermediate learners, even the one called "First French Reader".

Edited by Jeffers on 14 January 2013 at 9:10pm

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Tamise
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 Message 10 of 15
14 February 2013 at 8:56pm | IP Logged 
I recently picked up Better Reading French by Annie Heminway - it has several sections on different topics with reading passages in each starting at a fairly basic level. I've not got far enough into it to know how advanced it gets, but so far so good.
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clevernamehere
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 Message 11 of 15
07 March 2013 at 6:55pm | IP Logged 
What I have found to be truly helpful are les petits romans par Blaine Ray. You can find
them on Amazon. Each book costs about $6 and are well worth the price. Here are a couple
titles: "Pauvre Lola" and "Fama va en Californie." Not only are these short novels
confidence builders, but they truly do allow the reader to easily and naturally acquire
vocabulary words and grammatical patterns. I'm really glad I found them.
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clevernamehere
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 Message 12 of 15
08 March 2013 at 1:19am | IP Logged 
Also, www.tprstorytelling.com has a great selection of graded readers.
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Jeffers
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 Message 13 of 15
20 March 2013 at 5:30pm | IP Logged 
Thanks for the suggestion clevernamehere. I checked them out, and at least on
Amazon.co.uk the books are rather expensive, and there is no preview to get a sense of
what they're like. In addition, audio is sold separately. Finding buying options on the
tprstorytelling website was quite difficult as well.
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dbag
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 Message 14 of 15
20 March 2013 at 8:22pm | IP Logged 
There are a ton of French graded readers HERE

Edited by dbag on 20 March 2013 at 8:26pm

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clevernamehere
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 Message 15 of 15
20 March 2013 at 9:01pm | IP Logged 
Hey Jeffers, I second dbag's suggestion. Plus World of Reading (www.wor.com) has some
of the books I suggested earlier.

Also, the tprs website I recommended allows you to preview most of the books. Here's
the past tense preview of one book: http://www.tprstorytelling.com/images/file/fr-
houdini-past.pdf

The website also provides a total word count and a unique word count for most titles.
Unfortunately, I don't have much info regarding international shipping (to the UK),
but, odds are, they ship internationally.

Here are a number of great bookshops and resources:

abebooks.com (best if you already have a title or author in mind)

shoenhofs.com

wor.com

MOST DEFINITELY check out that site linked by dbag.

adlersforeignbooks.com (not many easy readers, but lots of books for children and
bandes dessinées)

ouiforkids.com

bon courage :)



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