Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the
ELT classroom for hand-picked classics of English literature that
are simplified and adapted for students in an accessible and engaging
way. What happens when a cargo ship sinks in the Pacific
Ocean, leaving only one lifeboat of survivors? And what happens if
those survivors are a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female
orang-utan and a Bengal tiger called Richard Parker? Sixteen-year-old
Pi 'Piscine' Patel is about to find out ... Adapted from
the international best-seller by Yann Martel