English graded readers
Stories you can actually finish. Audio on a lot of them.
Stories by level
These are Yak Yacker’s English graded readers. Famous stories rewritten at A1, A2, and B1 — The Boy Who Cried Wolf, Cinderella, The Wizard of Oz, Jane Eyre.
Not a shop. Audio on a lot of them. Pick a level below — A1, A2, or B1 — then finish the story.
A short book you can actually get to the end of.
A1 stories
Short sentences. Famous plots. Start here if English is still new.
Cinderella for Beginner English
A1
Goldilocks and the Three Bears in English
A1
Little Red Riding Hood
A1
The Ugly Duckling
A1
The Boy Who Cried Wolf
A1
Jack and the Beanstalk
A1
Hansel and Gretel
A1
Rapunzel
A1
The Frog Prince
A1
The Princess and the Pea
A1
The Gingerbread Man
A1
The Tale of Peter Rabbit
A1
The Tortoise and the Hare
A1
The Lion and the Mouse – A Beginner (A1) English Story with Audio
A1
Chicken Little
A1
The Emperor’s New Clothes
A1
The Elves and the Shoemaker
A1
The Little Red Hen
A1
The Ant and the Grasshopper
A1
The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
A1
The Bremen Town Musicians
A1
The Fox and the Grapes
A1
Humpty Dumpty
A1
Itsy Bitsy Spider
A1
Jack and Jill
A1
Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star
A1
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
A1
Mary Had a Little Lamb
A1
Baa Baa Black Sheep
A1
Hickory Dickory Dock
A1
London Bridge Is Falling Down
A1
Golden Boy
A1
Pat-a-Cake
A1
Plane Crazy
A1
Simple Simon
A1
Doctor Foster
A1
Old King Cole
A1
Rub-a-Dub-Dub – A Free A1 English Story with Audio for Beginners
A1
Jack Be Nimble
A1
Little Bo-Peep
A1
The Muffin Man
A1
Little Boy Blue
A1
Rock-a-bye Baby
A1
Hush, Little Baby
A1
Steamboat Willie
A1
The One-Inch Boy
A1
Three Blind Mice
A1
A-Tisket, A-Tasket
A1
Hey Diddle Diddle
A1
Rain, Rain, Go Away
A1
This Little Piggy
A1
Little Jack Horner
A1
Little Miss Muffet
A1
The Skeleton Dance – A Beginner English Story with Audio (A1)
A1
Learn English with Pop Goes the Weasel
A1
Ring a Ring o’ Roses
A1
The Queen of Hearts
A1
To Market, To Market
A1
Goosey Goosey Gander
A1
Row, Row, Row Your Boat
A1
One, Two, Buckle My Shoe
A1
Sing a Song of Sixpence
A1
Felix the Cat in Hollywood
A1
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny
A1
Nian and the New Year Monster
A1
Jemima Puddle-Duck
A1
Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
A1
Waiting by a Tree Stump for Rabbits
A1
There Was an Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe
A1
The Old Man Who Made Withered Trees Blossom
A1
A2 stories
A bit longer. Still a story you can finish.
A Christmas Carol
A2
A Little Princess
A2
Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp
A2
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
A2
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
A2
Anne of Green Gables
A2
Beauty and the Beast
A2
Beowulf and Grendel
A2
Betty Boop in Dizzy Dishes
A2
Black Beauty
A2
Chang’e Flies to the Moon
A2
Daedalus and Icarus
A2
Echo and Narcissus
A2
Five Children and It
A2
Hansel and Gretel
A2
Heidi in Simple English (A2)
A2
Hercules and the Twelve Labors
A2
Jason and the Golden Fleece
A2
King Arthur and the Sword in the Stone
A2
King Midas and the Golden Touch
A2
Learn English with Peter Pan
A2
Little Red Riding Hood
A2
Little Women
A2
Orpheus and Eurydice
A2
Pandora’s Box
A2
Persephone and the Seasons
A2
Perseus and Medusa
A2
Pinocchio
A2
Pluto/Rover in The Picnic
A2
Puss in Boots
A2
Rapunzel
A2
Rip Van Winkle
A2
Robin Hood and the Golden Arrow
A2
Robinson Crusoe
A2
Rumpelstiltskin
A2
Safety Last! A Fun A2 English Story with Audio & Word Help
A2
Sherlock Jr.
A2
Sinbad the Sailor
A2
Sleeping Beauty in English | A2 Elementary Story with Audio
A2
Snow White
A2
Snow-White and Rose-Red
A2
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
A2
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
A2
The Brave Little Tailor
A2
The Canterville Ghost
A2
The Fisherman and the Genie
A2
The General’s Clever Trick – Learn English with an A2 Story (Audio Included)
A2
The Gold Rush
A2
The Golden Goose – A Simple English Story (A2) with Audio
A2
The Goose Girl | An A2 English Story with Audio and Word Help
A2
The Happy Prince
A2
The Jungle Book
A2
The Kid
A2
The Legend of Mulan
A2
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
A2
The Little Match Girl
A2
The Little Mermaid
A2
The Nightingale – English Story with Audio for A2 Learners
A2
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
A2
The Railway Children
A2
The Secret Garden
A2
The Selfish Giant
A2
The Six Swans
A2
The Snow Queen
A2
The Steadfast Tin Soldier
A2
The Story of Doctor Dolittle
A2
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
A2
The Velveteen Rabbit
A2
The White Hare of Inaba
A2
The Wind in the Willows
A2
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
A2
Theseus and the Minotaur
A2
Thumbelina
A2
Tom Sawyer Whitewashes the Fence
A2
Treasure Island
A2
Winnie-the-Pooh A2 English Story with Audio – Read, Listen & Learn
A2
B1 stories
Longer pages. Still rewritten so you can get to the end.
A Farewell to Arms
B1
A Page of Madness
B1
A Princess of Mars
B1
A Study in Scarlet
B1
A Tale of Two Cities
B1
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
B1
All Quiet on the Western Front in Easy English (B1)
B1
Animal Crackers
B1
Around the World in Eighty Days
B1
As I Lay Dying
B1
Carmilla
B1
Discover ‘She
B1
Discover ‘The Lost World’
B1
Dracula
B1
Enter the Castle
B1
Frankenstein
B1
Great Expectations
B1
Heart of Darkness
B1
Hoichi the Earless
B1
Invasion from Mars
B1
Jane Eyre
B1
Journey to the Center of the Earth
B1
King Solomon’s Mines
B1
Last and First Men
B1
Learn English with Sherlock Holmes
B1
Learn English with White Fang
B1
Les Misérables
B1
Listen & Learn
B1
Metropolis
B1
Moby-Dick
B1
Mrs Dalloway
B1
Nancy Drew
B1
Nosferatu
B1
Oliver Twist
B1
Pride and Prejudice
B1
Raffles
B1
Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
B1
Tarzan of the Apes
B1
The Big House
B1
The Blue Angel
B1
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
B1
The Call of the Wild
B1
The Cask of Amontillado
B1
The Count of Monte Cristo
B1
The Curse of Capistrano
B1
The Donkey’s Secret
B1
The Fall of the House of Usher
B1
The Golden Age
B1
The Great Gatsby
B1
The Hardy Boys
B1
The Hound of the Baskervilles
B1
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame
B1
The Invisible Man
B1
The Island of Doctor Moreau
B1
The Lodger
B1
The Machine Stops
B1
The Maltese Falcon
B1
The Man Who Laughs
B1
The Man Who Was Thursday
B1
The Metamorphosis
B1
The Monkey’s Paw
B1
The Most Dangerous Game
B1
The Murder at the Vicarage
B1
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
B1
The Mysterious Affair at Styles
B1
The Night Land
B1
The Phantom of the Opera
B1
The Phantom of the Opera
B1
The Picture of Dorian Gray
B1
The Pied Piper
B1
The Prisoner of Zenda
B1
The Scarlet Letter
B1
The Scarlet Pimpernel
B1
The Secret Adversary
B1
The Secret Agent
B1
The Sun Also Rises – Read & Listen to a B1 English Story with Audio
B1
The Tell-Tale Heart
B1
The Thirty-Nine Steps
B1
The Three Little Pigs
B1
The Time Machine
B1
The Trial
B1
The Vampyre
B1
The Wendigo
B1
The Willows
B1
The Yellow Wallpaper
B1
To the Lighthouse – Read, Listen, and Learn English (B1) with Audio
B1
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
B1
Ulysses
B1
Wuthering Heights
B1
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