Penguin Readers Level 1: "Brown Eyes"

by Paul Stewart

Every year, Peter and Susan go to Lea-on-Sea for their holiday: every year they stay at the Hotel Vista. This year things start to go wrong. A man is pretending to be Peter. But why? Is he friendly or dangerous - what does he want? Will this, their thirteenth visit to Lea-on-Sea be their last? A thrilling and compelling mystery. Recommended for younger learners.

Genres: Fiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

Paul Stewart is a highly regarded author of books for young readers – from picture books to football stories, fantasy and horror. Together with Chris Riddell he is co-creator of the bestselling Edge Chronicles, which has sold more than three million copies and is available in over twenty languages. They have also collaborated together on lots of other exciting books for children of all ages. The Far-Flung Adventure series includes the Gold Smarties Prize Winner Fergus Crane, and Corby Flood and Hugo Pepper, both Silver Nestle Prize Winners. Then there are the Barnaby Grimes books, two Muddle Earth adventures, and the sci-fi Scavenger and fantasy Wyrmeweald trilogies. For younger readers there is the Blobheads series, while for the very young, Paul has written several picture books, including the Rabbit and Hedgehog series, In the Dark of the Night and, his latest, Wings.

Other authors by this name disambiguation Note:
Paul Stewart - business and management books

Reviews

[Alaa · Rating 1 out of 5]

I'm sorry for susan I do not like tragedy ends, she died ! what a painfully story for me!
The Language is too easy i just remember one important word meaning Pretend
:) skip to next level and trying my luck :)

[Nightlizard · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, it was one unhappy little story. I actually started to search continuation, I just couldn't believe it ended like that!
Susan was stupid, her husband shouldn't have listened to her in the first place!

[Menna Raafat · Rating 2 out of 5]

very weak plot and conflict. It would have been good if the writer had changed the ending.

[Violence · Rating 2 out of 5]

I didn't expect that end 👁️👄👁️

[Ilearnenglish · Rating 1 out of 5]

This level was too easy, and the story annoying.

[Ayman · Rating 3 out of 5]

The eighth book of English Graded Readers Mega Collection.

[Sumiya Tserendavaa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Also secret book. Becuase I'm not good understand brown eyes. Prison' aim not understand. Why? Face false?

[Meili Enni · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is sad events. I don't like Susan died and Bad man don't capture. But i think interesting book.

[Mahmoud Afifi · Rating 3 out of 5]

penguin’s 5th book , things are getting better and better , i liked this one but the end was so dark

[Maya · Rating 1 out of 5]

Read this to help my little brother with a school assignment. What do they teach kids these days

[Santosh Thapa · Rating 3 out of 5]

Shrawan 24, 2077, Saturday

Brown Eyes - Paul Stewart (1996)
[Penguin Readers Beginner (Level 1)]

Genre: Fiction/ English Graded Readers
Pages: 25
Rating: 6/10

Theme: Crime/ Impostor

Opener:
“We arrived at our hotel in Lea-on-Sea early on Saturday morning. The Hotel Vista. Susan and I always stay there. It is very quiet, very friendly, and the food is good. I opened the door, and we walked in.”

Summary:
Every year, Peter and Susan go to Lea-on-Sea for their holiday: every year they stay at the Hotel Vista. This year things start to go wrong. A man is pretending to be Peter. But why? Is he friendly or dangerous - what does he want? Will this, their thirteenth visit to Lea-on-Sea, be their last?

Final Review:
This was a dark one, and I liked it. A jilted ex-lover murders the girl and frames her current boyfriend. I thought since these are beginner stories the ending would not be as dark or tragic, but then I realized these are beginner stories, not children’s stories. I enjoyed this one.

[Susana · Rating 3 out of 5]

“A man is pretending to be me, I said. Why?”

Okay, this was one of the books that I finished in one day, actually, in less than half an hour, and it really didn't thought it was going to get any good at all. I wish that this book was written in Susan's POV, not in Peter's POV, because I could understand more of the story.

It goes around a couple called Susan and Peter Reed that are going to dates together, but there's a man, trying to spy them and kill Susan and blame it on Peter, he does the plan successfully because Susan is too dumb to differentiate between brown or blue eye color, and after she died, the charges went to Peter and I'm guessing that he ended on prison.

5/10 A simple read

[UniMef · Rating 3 out of 5]

The story is a bit odd and mysterious the narrator begin with giving hints that all peter's friends tought that they saw him and he had with them some time the day before but the truth is he was not him It was another person who pretended to be him this last will ruins peter's life unfortunately.

[So Na · Rating 3 out of 5]

British English (1day) 1 Beginner (300words) /Originals/

[Hamad]

Brown Eyes

[Truc Ann · Rating 1 out of 5]

this english is easy, I read it to improve English but the plot so weak, I don't understand some details (like brown eyes,...)

[Elena]

beautiful!

[noxyahn · Rating 3 out of 5]

this book is my first english book. the words is easy to understand. nice book for begginers, and nice plot twist :)

[Jin Yu · Rating 5 out of 5]

Doesn't anyone think that Peter and Stephen are the same person?
But they don't know each other.
This way everything makes sense.
The story is wonderful.

[Aderbal Carneiro · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book!

[Juan Pablo · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m learning English, and I think this is a good story for beginners. It’s a story with good and basic literary elements.

[Soria · Rating 5 out of 5]

... me gustó.

[Bruk Dugast · Rating 3 out of 5]

My first english book, it’s good but very easy to read :)

[Nwe Ni]

good book

[Hameed Muhammadian · Rating 5 out of 5]

i like the story , but the end is so tragic '), i wish it was a motivated beginnig to improve my English..

[Vinícius Nunes · Rating 2 out of 5]

WHAT THE FUCK! I can't believe it. Seriously? Why did they do that? I'm freaking out

Despite the tragedy, this is the best final until now LOL.

[Enes Boyacı]

oku

[Erwin Kurniawati · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ngga suka endingnya, jahat 😅