Book Week Scotland is almost here, and to celebrate at Bellahouston Academy I enlisted the help of Miss Johnson and her excellent ESOL class to translate some first lines into other languages. We have Coraline in Urdu, Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde in Spanish, How To Train Your Dragon in Russian and Belarussian, Pride and Prejudice in Italian, and Skulduggery Pleasant in Arabic and Punjabi.
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Great stories in any language