For beginning-intermediate students who aren’t ready for the volume of grammar and vocab in the Winnie the Pooh translation, there’s also Andrew Olimpi’s Ursus Nomine Vinnius.
His mythology retellings are popular with my middle school Latin students. The Latinitas isn’t perfectly classical, but it gets them lots of repetition with common words and grammar constructions in a way that is more engaging for them then rereading their text book again.
(Personally, I like Olimpi’s and Carla Hurt’s tiered readers.)
For beginning-intermediate students who aren’t ready for the volume of grammar and vocab in the Winnie the Pooh translation, there’s also Andrew Olimpi’s Ursus Nomine Vinnius.
His mythology retellings are popular with my middle school Latin students. The Latinitas isn’t perfectly classical, but it gets them lots of repetition with common words and grammar constructions in a way that is more engaging for them then rereading their text book again.
(Personally, I like Olimpi’s and Carla Hurt’s tiered readers.)
https://www.amazon.com/Ursus-Nomine-Vinnius-Novella-Winnie/dp/B0DHKG1HBP
What about Aesop in the original? (esp for middle schoolers)
And what about stimulating the imagination via the Certamen contests with NJCL?
I gave my Classics minor brother Winnie Ille Pu in his stocking this past Christmas! He has enjoyed it so much.