An introduction to the sound of short vowels with consonant blends.

Learning phonics made fun.

If you were an adjective, you could be spectacular, brilliant, dazzling, or daring. You could describe how something feels, sounds or behaves.

A frog requires the help of a dog to find a favorite log in a dense fog. This simple story for beginning readers teaches the 'og' sound through rhyming text and bright, original illustrations. Additional features to aid in comprehension include a word list for review, a note to parents and educators, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.

An old English rhyme names all the animals a farm boy feeds on his daily rounds.

Rhyming text and illustrations of comical cats present numerous examples of nouns, from "gown" and "crown" to "boat", "coat", and "clown."

"As a curious little chipmunk leaves his nest to greet the twilight, he gazes at the glittering sky above him. He can't help but also notice the sparkling dewdrops on a spider's web, the lights of the fireflies, and the shimmers of moonlight on the water. 'How I wonder what you are!' marvels the tiny creature, launching a dreamlike quest to reach for the stars."--Amazon.com.

A bear cub rubs too much dirt on himself and requires a bath. This simple story for beginning readers teaches the 'ub' sound through rhyming text and bright, original illustrations. Additional features to aid in comprehension include a word list for review, a note to parents and educators, and an introduction to the author and illustrator.

Demonstrates the different ways people look at the same situations by presenting contrasting idiomatic expressions in both English and Spanish. Example: Someone important is a "big wheel" in English but a "fat fish" in Spanish.

This volume explains such topics as long vowel sounds with consonant digraphs and inflectional endings by using comic, incongruous situations to get explain the points.