Rookie reader

Rosie brings her dog Sam to school for show-and-tell.

Although they are very different, Sam, a big dog, and Mabel, a small kitten, become good friends.

Illustrations and rhyming text describe the funny different things going on all over the body.

An avid collector enumerates all the things that have been collected, from twenty-three keychains and fifty-one shells to a ball of tin foil five feet wide.

Illustrations and simple text that teaches about shapes through a story about buying and carving pumpkins.

Rhyming text presents examples of words that go together, such as "top goes with bottom, down goes with up, " "fat goes with skinny, short goes with long, " and "night goes with moon and day goes with sun.".

Daniel is busy on every day of the week, painting the toolshed on Monday, fixing his sister's bike on Tuesday, finding himself more mischievous than helpful by Saturday, and resting on Sunday.

Dan does everything quickly, except when it is time to go to bed.

Jennifer tells of the many ways that she and her twin sister, Julie, are alike and different.

A child describes the joys of all different kinds of shoelaces.