A little boy fills his sound box with familiar words and pictures. Each illustration is accompanied by a single word that identifies it.

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.

Sam-I-am tries to persuade the character in the top hat to try green eggs and ham.

"In her chapter book debut, Nancy Clancy must find the culprit when a prized possession goes missing at school"--

Offers over three hundred words paired with illustrated scenes related to them intended to help young readers puzzle out their meanings and think creatively about language and images.

Introduces, in brief text and illustrations, the use of the letter combination "ake" in such words as "cake, " "snake, " "brake, " and "lake."

Pictures and rhyming text involving chimpanzee twins Chimp and Zee introduce words for everyday things, including clothes, food, animals, colors, days of the week, and numbers one to ten.