Ladybird Readers Level 4 - The Emperor and the Nightingale (ELT Graded Reader‪)‬

Ladybird Readers is an ELT graded reader series. Please note that the eBook edition does NOT include access to any online resources, including audio.

Written for children aged 3­-11 learning English as a foreign or second language, the series includes traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction.

Beautifully illustrated books, carefully written by language learning expertsEight levels follow the Common European Framework of Reference for language learning (CEFR)
The Emperor and the Nightingale, a Level 4 Reader, is A2 in the CEFR framework. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, more past and future tense structures, modal verbs and a wider variety of conjunctions.

The emperor called one of his lords.
“I have read about the nightingale,” he said.
“Find her for me! I want to listen to her songs.”