![]() ![]() Written by Russell Hoban and illustrated by Lillian Hoban, these stories are gems that are often remembered with fondness into adulthood. Books in this series include:įrances books by Russell Hoban (1948-1970)įrances, the badger, books are widely recognized as one of the great classics of children’s literature. I love everything about this series – it’s funny, it’s fast paced and it’s perfect for TCKs who can identify with planes, trains and suitcases and mishaps along the way. His adventures are anything but boring, thanks to his traveling companion, a crazy duck who is constantly misbehaving. It all starts off with a trip to New York – Dodsworth and his mischievous duck set out on their travels to different places around the world. This series is great for your little world traveler. ![]() A very popular series, Biscuit is everyone’s favorite playful and cuddly little puppy whose antics will amuse the whole family.ĭodsworth series (level 3) by Tim Egan (2007-2013) This series about an adorable yellow puppy named Biscuit, is great for preschoolers and emergent readers alike. Eastman’s masterpieces, here are some great series to explore with your young reader:īiscuit series (level 1) by Alyssa Satin Capucilli, illustrated by Pat Schories (1996) Eastman’s books Go, Dog, Go! (one of my son’s favorites), Are You My Mother? and The Best Nest. In the Beginning Reader series, I also recommend P.D. Seuss wrote many popular titles for beginning readers including Hop on Pop, Fox in Socks, Green Eggs and Ham, The Cat in the Hat, The Cat in the Hat Comes Back, and One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish. The 50 words are: a, am, and, anywhere, are, be, boat, box, car, could, dark, do, eat, eggs, fox, goat, good, green, ham, here, house, I, if, in, let, like, may, me, mouse, not, on, or, rain, Sam, say, see, so, thank, that, the, them, there, they, train, tree, try, will, with, would, you.ĭr. Green Eggs and Ham which uses exactly 50 words, proved the editor wrong. Seuss then accepted the challenge from his editor, that he couldn’t create a fun book with 50 words or less. “ I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of most school libraries,” he said. The Cat in the Hat was an instant success. Seuss, responding to an article in Life magazine that lamented the use of boring reading primers in schools, decided to create a more exciting “primer” using only 228 words. In 1957, Theodor Geisel, who took on the pen name Dr. One of the first early readers is the Beginning Books, which was founded by Theodor Geisel. Level 4 – First chapter books for advanced beginners.Level 3 – Longer stories with paragraphs.Level 2 – vocabulary and sentence length for beginning readers.Level 1 – simple words and short sentences to the newest readers.Many of the early readers are graded (level 1, 2, 3) so that kids can develop their reading skills and move up gradually to more independent reading. The font size is larger than a chapter book and they include illustrations, although not as many illustrations as a picture book. These books are written for kids ages 4 to 8. Isn’t that what early readers should do?Įarly readers are shorter books (1,500 words max) but are broken up into either chapters or vignettes that will give the reader the feeling of reading a book with real chapters in it. It drew me in and I found myself wanting to read them over and over again. What was different in my child’s mind, I can’t completely recall, but I think that it was partly that the illustrations were colorful, fun, and humorous. But it was the illustrations that jumped out at me – they were so culturally different from the pictures in my French workbooks. ![]() Theodore Geisel’s zany stories and characters are imprinted in my mind – they are happy memories of my mother teaching me English words which were so very different from the French words I had learned so far, words like up, ball, red, dad, sad, hop, stop. I have since discovered a treasure trove of books in this category that I love, that my children have enjoyed and that are worth lingering over long after your child ready for easy chapter or full chapter books.Īs a child, one of my early memories of learning to read in English – I was already reading in French by that time – was Hop on Pop by Dr. I couldn’t wait for my kids to be able to dive into chapter books. However, when I was a young mother, I was a bit “underwhelmed” by many of the early readers. The number of early reader books (other terms used are “beginning readers” or “easy readers”) on the market available today is mind-blogging. ![]()
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