The Alice in Wonderland Collection

One of the most often retold stories, Alice in Wonderland can be read as a fun story, as a mathematical puzzle, or as an allegory. In our retelling, we’ll mostly focus on the fun parts, while building vocabulary. We will focus on the memorable characters who have become part of English culture, even outside of this story.

We break the story down into 7 chapters, and end with some context on Alice’s place in modern culture.

Alice Arrives
Alice is bored. The bright, sunny day doesn’t interest her, until she sees a rabbit run into a hole under a tree. Alice decides to follow the rabbit, and starts a grand adventure.

The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
Alice stumbles onto the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party, a daily affair, where various strange characters sit around, uttering cryptic sayings.

The Cheshire Cat
Alice meets the Cheshire Cat, a cat who can turn invisible, and who appears to know everything but will not share his knowledge.

Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Alice meets Tweedledee and Tweedledum, non-nonsensical twins who only speak in riddles.

The Queen of Hearts
Alice is taken prisoner at the Queen’s royal croquet match. The Queen of Hearts is the craziest and one of the most quoted characters in all children’s literature.

Alice Leaves Wonderland
Alice has had many crazy adventures and now she’s running for her life. Can she find the way home before the Queen of Hearts finds her?

Final Thoughts
Alice’s place in popular culture, lasting images, what it all means. Suggested further reading and video list also offered

Completion of all activities unlocks a personalized, downloadable certificate.

The Robin Hood Collection

This volume contains six stories from Winnie’s first appearance in print, over a hundred years ago!

Children can read the story or listen to the story read aloud by our narrator, Lily. Activities include repeat-after-me pronunciation, word searches, matching words to meaning, and crossword puzzles (reinforce spelling). There is also a jigsaw puzzle at the end.

Volume 1
Table of Contents

Meet Robin Hood
Winnie-the-Pooh would love to eat some honey. The bees have put the honey far up in a tree. Maybe Winnie-the-Pooh can reach the honey if he uses a big balloon. Maybe.

Meet His Merry Men: Little John
Winnie-the-Pooh has found some strange footprints on the ground. His friend Piglet joins him in following the footprints.

Meet His Merry Men: Will Scarlet
Winnie-the-Pooh wants to visit his friend Rabbit, But Rabbit lives in a small hole in the ground, and Winnie is not a small bear.

Meet His Merry Men: Friar Tuck
Winnie-the-Pooh has a friend, a donkey named Eeyore. Eeyore has lost his tail. Winnie-the-Pooh has found a tail. But how to pin the tail on the donkey?

Meet Maid Marian
Winnie-the-Pooh has a friend, a donkey named Eeyore. Eeyore has lost his tail. Winnie-the-Pooh has found a tail. But how to pin the tail on the donkey?

Meet the Bad Guys: The Sheriff of Nottingham
Winnie-the-Pooh has a friend, a donkey named Eeyore. Eeyore has lost his tail. Winnie-the-Pooh has found a tail. But how to pin the tail on the donkey?

Completion of all activities unlocks a personalized, downloadable certificate.

The King Arthur Collection

Perhaps the greatest legend of all British history, the stories around King Arthur have been told and retold every generation.

As well as learning the key elements of the myth, students will discover the possible historical reality, and look at how a story can grow as it is told.

Sword in the stone
Every myth starts somewhere. Let’s meet a young Arthur as he does something impossible.

Merlin
Meet the wizard who found Arthur and guided him through his reign as king.

The Knights of The Round Table
Meet Arthur’s famous brave warriors, held to the highest code of honour, and led by Lancelot du Lac.

Arthur meets Guinevere
Every king needs a queen.

Excalibur
Another part of Arthur’s myth is Excalibur, his sword. This magical weapon was not the sword he pulled from the stone.

King Arthur’s Death
Unlike many heroes, King Arthur does not live beyond his stories.

Final Thoughts
Arthur’s place in popular culture, lasting images, what it all means. Suggested further reading and video list also offered

Completion of all activities unlocks a personalized, downloadable certificate.