Harriet Ziefert

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.

While trick-or-treating, two little witches meet other creatures out on Halloween night.

"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"--

"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"--

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.

Simple text reveals differences between zoo animals, from their behavior to their coloring.

Spectators wait to see what will come next as the watch the town's Fourth of July parade.

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.

When Max's dog Puppy gets lost, it is not until both Max and Puppy have the same idea that they finally find one another.

Really Bird and his friends go on a picnic. Really Bird demands a bigger piece of pie, but in the end he discovers that sharing is about more than cutting up pieces of a pie.