Penguin Readers Level 1: Roald Dahl Billy and the Minpins (ELT Graded Reader)

Billy and the Minpins, a Level 1 Reader, is A1 in the CEFR framework. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, introducing the past simple tense and some simple modals, adverbs and gerunds. Illustrations support the text throughout.

There are monsters in the forest. You must not go there! But Little Billy does not listen to his mother, and he goes to the dark forest. Little Billy is frightened, but then he meets the Minpins. Can they stop the hungry monster?