Harriet Ziefert

"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"--

Really Bird really wants to fly to the moon. So he and his friends Cat and Pup use the rocket in city park for the trip. It will take patience, teamwork, and imagination to make it all the way. Will Really Bird and his friends reach the Moon?

"Really Bird is a small bird who lives in a large city park. Today he is thinking... It's really cold outside! What will it take to get Really Bird to play on this cold, snowy day?" -- Page [4] cover.

Really Bird, a small bird who lives in a big city park, wants to be first! But on today's adventure, Really Bird discovers that being a leader is about more than being first in line.

Ten-year-old Rosa hopes that her mother, whom she has not seen for three years, will leave her job in New York and come home to Santa Catarina, Mexico, for Christmas and maybe even longer. Includes a glossary of Spanish words used.

"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"--

Buzzy loves his new blue balloon so much-maybe a little too much. After all, balloons don't last forever. What will Buzzy do when his balloon deflates, or even if it pops?

Informative text and lively collage illustrations take readers on a trip to the dentist's office and can help calm their fears through an ABC exploration of what they will find there.

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.