Monkey Business

I homeschool my 4 1/2 year old son and have bought just about every beginning reader book to help learn the joy of reading and slowly teach him how to read. By far, Brand New Readers are the very, very best. I highly recommend them to parents and hope you try these before you go out and buy any others, no other company does it better. The stories are short, very cute and fun, with vibrant pictures so your child will want to go from story to story. They always have a really cute ending that even adults will enjoy. What is so wonderful about them is that they are repetitive from page to page with only simple changes so your child can predict the words using the pictures and read the story themselves. Even though my son can not actually read he feels like a successful, independent reader and is so proud that he can read his favorite stories anytime he wants, all by himself. He reads to us, he reads to his sister, he reads to our cat! Slowly he is picking up common sight words that he reads over and over in his books. I plan to buy all the beginning reader books I can find, my son can not get enough of them.

This is a great book for beginning readers. The stories are darling! Plus, the illustrations correlate well to the story giving the beginning reader extra clues as to the story words below. Unlike some beginning readers, this series is age appropriate through age 8. It appeals to the older beginning reader as well as the younger reader. I heartily recommend this book to anyone with a beginning reader.