Gilbert the Grasshopper is the tale of an overly curious grasshopper... who ends up on an airplane This book is designed to be a crossover book for those children that are attempting to graduate from pictured storybooks to chapter-length books. With simple, black-and-white illustrations on each page, kids will focus on the words. And with the book being broken up into short chapters, confidence in reading will increase with each page. The authors use alliteration throughout, introducing new vocabulary to prepare children for intermediate school. Gilbert the Grasshopper also sparks a child's...

You are cordially invited... to The Trashy Hootenanny Your children will get a really big HOOT out of this chapter book, which puts focus on dialect and dialogue Just read this snippet, from character Krystal the Ant: "Duh I can't stand anything that concerns news or history or current events or documentaries or..." "So basically, anything that you can learn something from? ? " hollered Edward, interrupting Julian. "What on earf' be all 'dis racket 'round here? Y'all be shoutin' n' yellin' and wakin' up da' 'hood," called a loud, booming voice from inside a nearby mound of dirt. All of the...

Bernie Bee's Brimming Book of Benevolence teaches kids kindness This cute story about a bee striving for a B in school also piques a child's interest in cooking and the alliteration used in the story will have the whole family giggling