Hare can run and jump. Tortoise can walk. Hare and tortoise have a race, but can tortoise win? Hare is fast and he is slow! Ladybird readers is a graded reading series of traditional tales, popular characters, modern stories, and non-fiction, written for young learners of English as a foreign or second language. Recommended for children aged 4+, The eight levels of readers and activity books follow the CEFR framework (pre-a1 to A2+) and include language activities that help develop key skills and provide preparation for the Cambridge English: Young Learners (yle) exams. This level 1 Reader is pre-a1 in the CEFR framework and supports yle starters exams. Short sentences contain a maximum of two clauses, using the present tense and some simple Adjectives.