Flax-Golden Tales provides a delightful alternative to traditional English-teaching texts. The selection of reading materials-- and the instructional activities, commentaries, short essays, compact disc, and appendices which accompany them-- have been designed to meet the following goals: 

• Improve reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills
• Foster a love for reading
• Enhance critical, creative,a nd holistic thinking
• Serve as an invitation to fields as diverse as cultural anthropology and insect physiology
• Cultivate an appreciation of divergent, cultures, customs, and ways of thinking 
• Promote the search for truth, beauty, and compassion