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January 28, 2026
2.5 stars
short review for busy readers:
"Dawn and Other Chilling Stories for Older Learners" is a collection of 5 stories published in the late 1980s and possibly rather old-fashioned even then. Well out of print now.
in detail:
I, possibly mistakenly, assumed "older learners" mean adults, or even adults in middle years, so was surprised by two of the stories featuring early teens.
I'd also take exception with the description "chilling". There are some paranormal happenings in these tales, but the pace is so slow and the writing style so old-fashioned, that it's like watching a horror movie from the 1940s where the strings on the bats are clearly visible.
More amusing than chilling/thrilling/exciting. (Perhaps it's for older folks after all?)
While the language is on an early Canolradd (B1) level, the collection was written before these terms and ideas came about, so there is a mixture of easy-to-read Sylfaen-level (A2) sentences and more idiomatic phrasing that learners would only get to in Uwch (B2). This makes the book at turns easy, and then too difficult. (and the sparse vocab help doesn't help at all)
This books appears to have been out of print for a while, but might still be found in library stock or at car boot sales. My edition was a library cast off.
short review for busy readers:
"Dawn and Other Chilling Stories for Older Learners" is a collection of 5 stories published in the late 1980s and possibly rather old-fashioned even then. Well out of print now.
in detail:
I, possibly mistakenly, assumed "older learners" mean adults, or even adults in middle years, so was surprised by two of the stories featuring early teens.
I'd also take exception with the description "chilling". There are some paranormal happenings in these tales, but the pace is so slow and the writing style so old-fashioned, that it's like watching a horror movie from the 1940s where the strings on the bats are clearly visible.
More amusing than chilling/thrilling/exciting. (Perhaps it's for older folks after all?)
While the language is on an early Canolradd (B1) level, the collection was written before these terms and ideas came about, so there is a mixture of easy-to-read Sylfaen-level (A2) sentences and more idiomatic phrasing that learners would only get to in Uwch (B2). This makes the book at turns easy, and then too difficult. (and the sparse vocab help doesn't help at all)
This books appears to have been out of print for a while, but might still be found in library stock or at car boot sales. My edition was a library cast off.
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