School Zone It Would Be Fun, Start to Read! Book Level 2: 16 Pages, Early Reader Book, Learn to Read, Sight Words, Rhyming, Vocabulary, Sentence Structure, Ages 5 to 7 (Start to Read! Book Series)

Help expand your child’s imagination and reading skills! In It Would Be Fun!, a young boy imagines having the traits of different animals and discovers that each one is perfect just the way it is—and so is he. “I think it would be fun to have wings so I could fly. But wings are so much better for a hawk in the sky.”

BOOK FEATURES

• 16 pages
• Designed for children ages 5-7
• 6.6” x 9” pages with durable glossy cover
• Engaging storybook the supports kindergartners and first graders early reading development
• Beginning vocabulary, basic sight words, and short sentences ideal for new readers
• Introduces 50-70 new words as part of Start to Read!® multi-level book series
• Bright, colorful illustrations provide helpful picture clues
• Slim and portable, perfect for on-the-go learning!

Designed as a next step after Level 1 introduction to reading, this Level 2 storybook features controlled vocabulary, simple sentence patterns, and rhyming words. Many new words can be read by changing the initial sound or by rhyming with a known word, while picture clues provide strong reading support. This title is part of Dr. James Hoffman’s Start to Read!® Early Reading Program, which includes storybooks across three progressive reading levels.

Children's author and illustrator, G. Brian Karas was born in Milford, Connecticut. He attended Paier School of Art and graduated with highest honors. After school, he worked as a greeting card artist and a commercial illustrator. Home on the Bayou, a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor, was his first illustrated book. Since then, he has illustrated over seventy books for children. Titles authored and/or illustrated by Karas have won numerous other awards. Saving Sweetness written by Diane Stanley was a Capitol Choices Noteworthy Book for Children in 1996, received a Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books Blue Ribbon in 1996, and was a School Library Journal Best Book of 1996. Like Butter On Pancakes by Jonathan London was a School Library Journal Best Book of 1995. The Class Artist, written and illustrated by Mr. Karas, was a Smithsonian Magazines Notable Book for Children in 2001 and received the Oppenheim Toy Portfolio 2002 Best Book Gold Award.