About this item
Highlights
- "Do you like to hike?
- 3-7 Years
- 9.21" x 6.14" Hardcover
- 38 Pages
- Juvenile Fiction, Animals
- Series Name: Books for Beginner Readers
Description
About the Book
Brand new readers can take a rainy day hike with a girl in the woods. Perfect for children just learning to decode and spot sight words. Exciting pictures and truly easy to read!
Book Synopsis
"Do you like to hike? Find fun in the mud with me!"Brand new readers take a rainy day hike in the forest with a girl who likes mud. Spot the squirrels along the way- what are they up to? The words in this book are super easy to read for kids just learning to decode. Each page has an interesting scene- your child will want to jump right into the story. A perfect choice as a first book for children who need to gain confidence reading independently and who are building a sight word vocabulary.
About the series:
Welcome to R.L. Margolin's Books for Beginner Readers series, here to help your new reader develop reading confidence and a love for literacy! This book is just right for children who have learned all of the letter sounds and are ready to begin sounding out simple words. It's a great place to begin building a sight word vocabulary, too. My promises to you:
- All the words used in the series are truly easy for your child to read.
- The stories make sense.
- Engaging illustrations help carry the story where words are few.
- Entertainment on every page will hold the attention of your young child.
- Seek and find challenge: Find Shindig Squirrel hiding in each scene!
Recommended for new readers ages 3-7.
About the author:
R.L. Margolin is an author of children's books with a background in psychology and early childhood education. She grew up in Appalachia, but now lives with her husband and two children in New York City. She is committed to writing inclusive books that make all children feel seen. Her books are here to help children develop pride and a sense of accomplishment as they take those special first steps on the path to becoming avid readers.
Review Quotes
ErinP (online retail reviewer)
Fun and accessible to beginning readers and soon-to-be-readers
My five year old is nearing the end of kindergarten, and he can sound out simple words, slowly, but he's nowhere near confident in independent reading. At home we have some Bob books (we have the sight words set and the beginning reader set; he can read them but they aren't colorful and the plots are strange) and some PJ Masks "step 1" Step into reading books (they seem hard for step 1 to me, and they are long enough that getting my kid to finish even one book involves a ton of encouragement, if not begging and pleading to keep going).
My 5 year old was able to read this book all by himself! I sat with him and prompted him with the correct word in cases where he just wasn't getting it (think: pronouncing take like tack), but otherwise he read every word on his own. He LOVED searching for the squirrel on each page (and so did my non-reading 3 year old), and he especially loved the pages when the squirrel was doing something cute or funny. The squirrel was so much fun that he wanted to find it on each page before even reading the text. Both kids looove the squirrel.
This book is about a hike on a muddy trail; we had lots of talk about mud and getting dirty and choosing paths in the woods. I've noticed that all of Margolin's beginning readers feature locations that could realistically be part of a beginning reader's life. I liked that, it made the content relatable to my son. When we finished the book, my 3 and 5 year old were still browsing pages to find the squirrel again, but soon my 5 year old called me back, asking, can we read another one?, and pointing to the one he would like to read next, in the picture of other books from the series. So I would say this book was a big win for us, and I'd happily recommend it to any beginning reader who is a true beginner
