One morning, Moominpappa found a shell. When he put it next to his ear, he heard the song of the sea! Moomin wanted to hear the music, too. Could he find his own shell on Shell Island? Ladybird Readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children aged 4+, the six levels of Readers and Activity Books follow the CEFR framework (Pre-A1 to A2) and include language activities that help develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (YLE) exams. This Level 3 Reader is A1+ in the CEFR framework and supports YLE Movers exams. The longer text is made up of sentences with up to three clauses, some expression of future meaning, comparisons, contractions and relative clauses.Based on the original stories by Tove Jansson.Text adapted by Mary Taylor.
