The Emperor's new clothes are very special. Only clever people can see them. Everyone knows that. Can you see them? Includes a word list, 5 pages of activities and free online audio (British English and American English). 500 headwords, 801 words A finalist for the Language Learner Literature Award, from the Extensive Reading Foundation
This book features in the following series: English Readers, English Readers Level 1 .
This book has been graded for interest at 5-8 years.
There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by Usborne Publishing Ltd .
Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) was a Danish author and poet, most famous for his writing down of many timeless, classic fairy tales. He is Denmark's most famous author and his birthday is celebrated every year with a part called "Odin Story Day". Tom Jamieson is a principal joke writer for Private Eye magazine. He was also one of the head writers on the award-winning sketch series Dead Ringers, and has contributed to several radio and television programmes, including Have I Got News For You. This is Tom's first children's book. Olga Demidova studied at the Moscow Art Institute of Applied Arts, and worked as an animator. She is the illustrator of Peep Inside the Farm, part of the bestselling Peep Inside Usborne series. This is Olga's first picture book with Bloomsbury.
This book contains the following story:
The Emperor's New Clothes
Once upon a time there lived an emperor who loved clothes and was extremely vain. ‘I must have a new outfit for the royal procession and I need it to be designed by someone totally splendid’, he demanded of his butler. The emperor was warned that a new outfit would be very expensive and there wasn’t really much money to spare for new togs, but he was adamant. The palace put out a proclamation asking that splendid fashion designers put themselves forth for interview to design a royal outfit for the royal procession. A pair of chancers thought they would give it a go. They flattered the emperor to such an extent they managed to convince him that no clothes at all were ‘an outfit fit for a king that and visible only to clever people’. On the day of the royal procession no-one dared tell the emperor that he was starkers for fear of being accused that they were stupid. But the truth was in any case revealed when a little boy shouted ‘Oh my, the emperor has no clothes on!’.
