Reading Raven – Level 2: The Magic Fountain Pen

Content

Ben finds a magic fountain pen that can fulfill wishes. All the kids in his class get ice cream, followed by a snowball fight in the classroom and gym class with a real monkey. What a great day of school!

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

Annette Langen, born in 1967, was for many years an editor in charge of the program for a children’s book publisher. She started writing children’s books herself during that time, and now has more than 80 titles to her credit. Her Letters from Felix series was translated into 30 languages and filmed. Since 2000 she has been a writer exclusively. She lives in the Bergisches Land region of Germany with her two children.