Oxford Bookworms Factfiles: Deserts: Level 1: 400-Word Vocabulary

Oxford Bookworms Factfiles Stage 1

by Janet Hardy-Gould

Features topics such as environmental issues, historical facts, and culture.

Full-color photographs, introductions, glossaries, and exercises enhance student reading and learning.

Audio versions of selected titles provide great models of intonation and pronunciation of difficult words.

64 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

About the author

Janet Hardy-Gould is a graded reader author whose books are hugely popular with teachers and students around the world. She has written a wide range of graded readers for Oxford University Press. These include Ellis Island: Rosalia's Story (Oxford Dominoes) which won the Extensive Reading Foundation (ERF) award in 2020 and Merlin (Oxford Dominoes) which won the ERF award in 2015, plus Amelia Earhart (Oxford Bookworms Library) which was shortlisted for the ERF final in 2015, and Women Who Made A Difference which was shortlisted in 2025. You can follow Janet's Facebook Page at https://www.facebook.com/JanetHardyGo...
Her best-selling titles include Henry VIII and his Six Wives (Oxford Bookworms Library) and Sherlock Holmes: The Emerald Crown (Oxford Dominoes). Many of her works are cartoons or highly-illustrated books for students starting out in English and they include Sinbad, Mulan, Ali Baba and The Great Fire of London (Oxford Dominoes Starters).
Janet believes that graded readers are one of the fastest and most enjoyable ways for learners to improve their English and a wonderful tool for developing reading skills and vocabulary. It is also highly motivating for students to choose their own book on a subject they are interested in. With this in mind, she has produced books on a variety of popular factual subjects such as Hollywood, San Francisco, Deserts and Chocolate (Oxford Bookworms Library Factfiles).

Reviews

[Linh Tran · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like Factfiles series. You acquire general knowledge about a topic when reading the book, in this case knowledge about the deserts.

[Tatiana Brandonisio · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book, it's easy and interesting. It speaks about deserts and what one can see. The phrase that I like so much, it is: "when people think of a desert, they often think of a place with no hills or mountains, but you can find desert with tall mountains and ravines". this phrase invites all people to think not with a sterotype, but with a open mind!

[Deuck · Rating 4 out of 5]

You will feel so easy to understand about deserts, when you have finished reading this book.
First, I can figure out why the deserts are spreading to all over the world. Second, was surprised that some tribes continue to stay and live in deserts for long time in spite of hard situation.
We need to stop desertification from now on.

[Flavia · Rating 3 out of 5]

The deserts hide lots of curiosity, characteristics that people could never imagine! It is the same way, all that is undervalued hides a huge surprise as the flowers come from manure, deserts fascinate us with its immense beauty hidden!

[Cecilia Soggiorno]

It is a wonderful book. Even if it is a simply book now i know more things about the desert, the people that lives here and a lot of informations. It's a very good book and i have learn a lot of new words.

[Imran]

nice