The Chariot Race/La course de chars

by Lynne Benton

A bilingual fiction title for children who are independent readers. Ali's donkey strays into the arena during a very important chariot race - and wins the race! The parallel text, speech bubbles and pictures by different, talented illustrators provide a child-friendly bridge to reading - and speaking - in another language. There is a quiz at the end of each story to help comprehension and revise vocabulary. Take a look at the other books in the series, including Lets Un nouveau monde/A New World (Lets Read in French & English), Lets L'étranger dans la neige/Stranger in the Snow (Let's Read in French and English), Lets Un extraño en la nieve/Stranger in the Snow (Let's Read in Spanish and English),Lets Un nuevo mundo/A New World (Let's Read in Spanish and English), Le rocher rouge/Red Rock (Fre-Eng) (Let's Read), Where's Toto?: Donde esta Toto?: Donde Esta Toto? (Let's Read),Lets Read Spanish - Time Los Mellizos Del Tiempo (Let's Read),Lets Read Spanish - Danny's El Blog De Daniel (Let's Read) and La Roca Roja/Red Rock (Spa-Eng) (Let's Read).

Genres: France

32 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2009

About the author

From an early age Lynne Benton spent much of her time reading and writing stories. However, for some years writing took a back seat while she taught in primary schools, married and brought up four children, so it was only when they began leaving home for university that she rediscovered her love of writing and began to get her stories published. Now she writes stories for younger children learning to read, as well as longer books for the 8-11 age group. She lives with her husband in Bath, and has recently begun reading her longer books on westwiltsradio.com.