Reading Raven – Level 1: Scary Stories

Content

Incredible! At night, Leo encounters a vampire in the kitchen. A class of ghosts goes on a school trip and gets a big scare during their outing. At a soccer game between 1. FC Zombie and SC Skeleton, more than just the ball is flying through the air. And in haunting class, the students find out who's the best scarer of them all!

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

Michael Petrowitz, born in Berlin in 1972, earned a degree from the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (dffb). Since 2000 he has been a freelance screenwriter, and since 2008 he has also taught screenplay writing/dramaturgy. He was awarded the Robert Geisendörfer Prize in the children’s television category in 2005. Michael Petrowitz lives in Berlin.

The Illustrator

Michael Bayer was born in 1971 in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance in southern Germany. He studied visual communications at the technical university in Münster, where he worked for a local advertising agency after earning his degree in 2000. Bayer has been a freelance illustrator since 2001.