Oxford Bookworms Library: Level 1:: 47 Ronin: A Samurai Story from Japan

About Jennifer Bassett

Jennifer Bassett has been a teacher teacher trainer editor and materials writer and has taught in England Greece Spain and Portugal. She is the Series Editor of the Oxford Bookworms Library and has written more than twenty original and retold stories for the series including The Phantom of the Opera One-Way Ticket The President's Murderer and William Shakespeare. Two of her adaptations Rabbit-Proof Fence and Love Among the Haystacks have won Language Learner Literature Awards and three of her other titles have been finalists for the Awards. She has created a new sub-series called Bookworms World Stories which are collections of short stories written in English from around the world. She has also written original stories for the English Today Readers and Storylines series. Jennifer is series co-adviser with H.G. Widdowson of the Oxford Bookworms Collection volumes of unadapted short stories for advanced learners.