Reading Raven – Level 1: Emmi and Nala in Dance Fever

Content

Friends Emmi and Nala are very different, but they get along great. They both love hip-hop dancing and are in the dance club at school. The girls are eagerly awaiting the big school festival and are practicing hard for their dance performance. But then they have an argument. During rehearsals, they are both distracted and have to dance in the second row instead of the first. And this happens just before the performance! Will Emmi and Nala be able to make up and dance together?

About the Series

The Reading Raven series is designed to encourage beginning readers by providing fun and exciting stories at each ability level, from their first efforts at reading alone to more advanced chapter books Each Reading Raven book includes reading riddles, puzzles to solve using information in the story. This is a fun way to check how well children understand what they read. The first level features short texts with lots of pictures that provide clues to the story's meaning. These books are written in extra-large print. When children are ready for longer stories, the second level of Reading Raven offers short chapter books, also in large print with illustrations that help readers follow the text. The third level is for readers who are becoming proficient, with longer chapters and increasingly complex stories, but still with accompanying pictures and highly readable print.

The Author

Henriette Wich was born in 1970 in Landshut, Germany as the youngest of seven children in her family. As a child, she devoured every book she could get her hands on. She studied German and philosophy at Regensburg University, then worked as an editor at a children's publishing house for six years. Henriette Wich has been a freelance author of children's and young adult books since 2000, and currently lives with her husband in Munich.

The Illustrator

Angela Glökler was born in Rastatt in Southern Germany. Via some loops und curves, her career path led her to studying illustration at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, HAW). To this day, she has remained loyal to both the north and to illustrating, creating drawings and paintings for big and small children in a Hamburg artists’ residence. And because she loves loops und curves so much, they now appear in her drawings.