Dyslexia-friendly books - based on up-to-date research
New research has demonstrated that a simple text manipulation can reduce the phenomenon known as migration (letters or words seeming to move) and lead to improved comprehension when reading narrative text for students with delayed-visual-disengagement dyslexia. When students read aloud from the adjusted text, compared to normal text, they make fewer mispronunciations, fewer omissions, fewer substitutions and fewer migrations and thus score higher on standardised tests of comprehension. Currently, this formatting is unique to Crossbridge Books.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/dys.1787
Ages 7 - 11
Miss Lovelace’s unexplained code (dyslexia-friendly edition) is the first title to be published in this format. The content is suitable for children aged 7-11 and particular appealing to boys who are often those who struggle to learn to read with conventional text. The story tells about Miss Lovelace who discovers that her computer code has strange powers. She uses the amazing code to save the children at the school where she works from the evil head teacher. Comments from a primary teacher with thirty years of service “I think the books are brilliant! Inspired! Miss Lovelace is original and very appealing to children. It reminded me of Roald Dahl’s ‘The Magic Finger’. The language is rich yet the structure and content is simple enough to make it very accessible for most children. The author seems to have written it just for pure enjoyment.”
ISBN 978 1 913946 18 0 Price £7.00
Miss Lovelace’s code rebooted (dyslexia-friendly edition) is the second title to be published in this format. The content is suitable for children aged 7-11 and particular appealing to boys who are often those who struggle to learn to read with conventional text. The story tells about school children Antoine, Tomasz and Sabita who discover Miss Lovelace’s amazing code. They put it to good use defending home and school against bullies and crooks.
ISBN 978 1 913946 19 7 Price £7.00
Miss Lovelace's code gets an upgrade (dyslexia-friendly edition) is the third titles to be published in this format. For children aged 7-11. The story tells about school children Ant, Tom, Sabbi and Mia who discover a wicked plot by the owner of a holiday park. The children discover tha Miss Lovelace's code has a new function and they use this to carry out a cunning plan so that the goodies win and the baddies get their just deserts.
ISBN 978 1 913946 20 3 Price £7.00
Ages 12 +
Close the window Stefan
(dyslexia-friendly edition)
Published as a dyslexia-friendly edition. This is the true story of a boy's experience of war-time Germany under the Hitler regime. Aged just nine at the outbreak, Stefan experienced the blanket bombing by the RAF, being exposed to the grim realities of war. He was evacuated away from the city and found himself living on a farm close to the border with France where he made friends with prisoners of war. By the time he was fourteen, many of his friends had already been sent to the frontline while Stefan was evacuated yet again, this time east into the mountains.
ISBN: 978 1 913946 21 0 Price £8.00
Book reviews:
"Initially one of my boys was put off by the formatting, he said that it made him feel wobbly and that it would interrupt his reading flow. But after reading the first few lines he felt comfortable with the font, spacing and soft grey font colour. He was surprised. My boys really liked the cream paper; the font colour and cream paper helped them to have a positive reading experience. One of my boys was delighted with himself, being able to read aloud the text without making any errors and maintaining a good reading flow. This is a huge achievement and does wonders for his self-confidence."
E.S., Special needs teacher and SENCO
"I have just started reading your book 'Close the window Stefan' and I am amazed by how I can read the text much easier. I'm not missing so many words. I normally have to read text over and over for understanding. Words are clearer and they are not jumping around so much."
Mia Egan, Dyslexic Learning Support Practitioner
Ages 14 +
Timothy Brum
(Dyslexia-friendly edition)
by R M Mace
This book is a dyslexia-friendly version of the story of a nine-year-old boy who is lost and taken into care. He runs away from a children's home and ends up living rough on the streets of London. A modern-day Oliver twist for young adults. The narrative is uniuely written from the perspective of each of the characters as the tale unfolds.
ISBN: 978 1 913946 22 7 Price £10.00
Wolves of Russia. Part One: Changing Landsacapes 1914-1923 by R M Mace
(Dyslexia-friendly edition)
This volume is Part One of three parts and is printed in dyslexia-friendly format.
ISBN: 978 1 913946 23 4
Price £ 9.00
Wolves of Russia. Part Two: The Long Walk 1939-1941 by R M Mace
DYSLEXIA-FRIENDLY EDITION
This volume is Part Two of three parts and is printed in dyslexia-friendly format.
ISBN: 978 1 913946 24 1
Price £ 12.00
Wolves of Russia. Part Three: Under the Union Jack 1942-1947 by R M Mace
DYSLEXIA-FRIENDLY EDITION
This volume is Part Three of three parts and is printed in dyslexia-friendly format.
ISBN: 978 1 913946 25 8
Price £ 10.00
80th anniversary of the Battle of Monte Cassino
Wolves of Russia
by R M Mace
An epic story of survival spanning two generations as told by the last in line of an ancient Polish noble family, based on memoirs and eye-witness accounts of true events. From the court of Imperial Russia to Foxley Manor in Herefordshire, England, the story begins with the First World War, takes the reader through the Russian Revolution, The Second World War, deportation to Siberia, escape from a gulag, enlistment in the British Eighth Army, the Italian Campaign and Monte Cassino, the operations of the UNRRA, and finally to England.
For fans of the book 'The Long Walk; The True Story of a Trek to Freedom', or fans of books about the Eastern Front of the Great War, this book will not disappoint.
There are some stories that simply have to be told; Wolves of Russia is one of those stories. The secrecy of the Stalin years and beyond have kept this story, typed laboriously on yellowing A4 sheets, tucked safely in a draw for decades until now.
You might ask how true is this story? It was true for those who lived it.
Author royalties will be donated to CAFOD