Simple text and illustrations portray a small dog waking up, having breakfast, and getting ready to play.

"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--

"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"--

When the first snow of the year falls on the first day of winter, all the snow people have a snow party.

Combines simple rhymes with anime-style illustrations in a series of skill-building stories that invites young readers to become familiar with word families that share similar long- and short-vowel sounds.

Explores how each of the five senses is hard at work all day long providing information, warning of danger, and helping us enjoy the world around us.

"Offering a springboard into independent reading, the Flip-a-Word series takes kids from a single word, to a phrase, to a simple sentence. Ice Mice utilizes word families to help new readers recognize similarities between words that rhyme and connect words that have matching long or short vowel sounds"--

When their outdoor sleepover is interrupted, Bear and his friends prepare for bed in a cabin, saying goodnight to a catalog of things, including Bear's beloved underwear.

Short rhymes point out traits that characterize different animals, such as an owl's keen eyesight or the beauty of a butterfly's wings.