(2017-17) The Canterville Ghost [Extensive Reading]

The Canterville Ghost 

Written by Oscar Wilde, Retold by John Escott, Illustrated by Summer Durantz 

Oxford Bookworms Library Stage 2 

Most grand old houses have a family ghost of some kind. 

Sometimes it is a quiet and kindly ghost, and sometimes it is a noisy one, always banging doors and crashing about in chains. 

The ghost at Canterville Chase is one of the noisy kind, and the family can't get any sleep at night. 

So Lord Canterville sells the house to Mr Hiram B. Otis, who is and American and not at all worried about ghosts. 

In fact, Mr and Mrs Otis and their children - Washington, pretty Virginia, and the twins, two noisy little boys - are very happy to live in a house with a ghost. 

But the ghost is not happy. His job is to frighten people, and the Otis family aren't frightened by any of his best tricks. 

Their hair doesn't turn white, they don't run away in terror, they don't faint - they don't even scream! 

And the Otis twins know more tricks than the poor ghost will ever know... 

One day, Virginia found the room where the ghost live, and then they talked about each other. 

The ghost told her the story about himself, and Virginia asked the ghost not to frighten the people. 

But, the ghost told that is his own job. 

Virginia asked the ghost to go to sleep, but the ghost told that he hadn't slept for 300 years. 

Virginia felt so sorry for the ghost, and asked him how she can help him sleep. 

Thanks to Virginia, the ghost could fall asleep and he gave her jewels as rewards.