These books are written for kids ages 4 to 8. Isn’t that what early readers should do?Įarly readers are shorter books (1,500 words max) but are broken up into either chapters or vignettes that will give the reader the feeling of reading a book with real chapters in it. It drew me in and I found myself wanting to read them over and over again. What was different in my child’s mind, I can’t completely recall, but I think that it was partly that the illustrations were colorful, fun, and humorous. But it was the illustrations that jumped out at me – they were so culturally different from the pictures in my French workbooks. Theodore Geisel’s zany stories and characters are imprinted in my mind – they are happy memories of my mother teaching me English words which were so very different from the French words I had learned so far, words like up, ball, red, dad, sad, hop, stop. I have since discovered a treasure trove of books in this category that I love, that my children have enjoyed and that are worth lingering over long after your child ready for easy chapter or full chapter books.Īs a child, one of my early memories of learning to read in English – I was already reading in French by that time – was Hop on Pop by Dr.

I couldn’t wait for my kids to be able to dive into chapter books. However, when I was a young mother, I was a bit “underwhelmed” by many of the early readers.

You No Take Candle: Some of the sentences are primitive, like 'Pat sat on cat'.The number of early reader books (other terms used are “beginning readers” or “easy readers”) on the market available today is mind-blogging.

Trampoline Tummy: The little boy and girl fuzzy creatures like bouncing on their father's tummy.

Tertiary Sexual Characteristics: Pop's daughter wears a bow on her head.Slapstick: The people who play ball on the wall then all fall off.Random Events Plot: The book doesn't have a clear storyline, and is just a bunch of silly scenarios blended together.Defied when the little yellow creature tells Pat not to sit on a cactus.One of the yellow creatures gets stung by a bee on its butt.No Name Given: The only named characters are Pup, Pat,.A Dog Named 'Dog': The first character is a puppy named Pup.Cartoon Creature: The majority of the characters are vaguely-defined humanoids.Cactus Cushion: Defied when Pat is about to sit on a cactus, but someone says, 'No, Pat, no! Don't sit on that!'.Bee Afraid: The three bees chase after the two doglike creatures, and one of them stings the smaller one.Artistic License – Biology: The bees are shown with their stingers on their noses instead of their behinds.Accessory-Wearing Cartoon Animal: Pat wears only gloves.It follows random, nonsensical happenings, often with two rhyming words introduced, followed by a sentence containing the words (e.g. STOP! You must not hop on Pop! Hop on Pop is a children's book by Dr.

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