‘I like work. I find it interesting… I can sit and look at it for hours.’

With ideas like this, perhaps it is not a good idea to spend a holiday taking a boat trip up the River Thames. But this is what the three friends – and Montmorency the dog – decide to do. It is the sort of holiday that is fun to remember afterwards, but not so much fun to wake up too early on a cold, wet morning.

This famous book has made people laugh all over the world for a hundred years… and they are still laughing.

• Retold by Diane Mowat
• CEFR B1 — B2
• Word count 18,055