The Twins and the Time Machine/ Le Jumeaux Et La Machine Du Temps

本書是一則結合冒險與語言學習的雙語故事，全文以英文與法文對照呈現，適合已能以母語獨立閱讀的孩子。Tom 和 Sophie 在前往祖父家的旅途中，各自懷著不同心思，直到他們發現祖父最新的發明——一台能穿越時空的機器。隨著旅程展開，孩子在故事中自然接觸另一種語言，不必逐字查詢，也能在重複出現的語境中理解新詞彙。插畫與對話框設計，為閱讀提供清楚而安心的引導，讓學習語言成為一次充滿想像的探索。

The interesting, illustrated bilingual stories in Let's Read! language-learning books are written for boys and girls who are independent readers in their own language. Titles in this series are available in both English-French and English-Spanish editions. While enjoying the original, varied, and exciting stories, young readers explore a second language, compare it with their own, and start out on a path toward fluency in their new language. Boys and girls soon discover that they don't need to learn every single new word that they encounter in the second language. As unfamiliar words reappear in the story's context, kids will pick up their meaning effortlessly, just as they pick up and understand new words in their own language. The parallel text, illustrations, and dialogue balloons on each page give kids a child-friendly bridge to reading and speaking in a second language. In this story, Tom and Sophie are traveling by car with their parents, on their way to visit Grandpa. It's a long trip, and to keep herself occupied, Sophie reads a book that recounts past cultures and events in many different lands. Tom pays no attention to her book. He'd rather stop somewhere along the highway and have lunch. When at last they arrive at Grandpa's house, they find him busy at work on one of his many inventions. But this invention is truly unusual. It's a miraculous time machine, capable of taking Tom and Sophie to a historic place she has been reading about.