A little boy fills his sound box with familiar words and pictures. Each illustration is accompanied by a single word that identifies it.

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.

Presents a forty-six-week series of daily exercises designed to teach the reader eleven hundred useful English words and idioms and to establish mastery of them.

"In her chapter book debut, Nancy Clancy must find the culprit when a prized possession goes missing at school"--

Introduces more than two hundred words, including foods, number, shapes, colors, and feelings.

Introduces, in brief text and illustrations, the use of the letter combination "ake" in such words as "cake, " "snake, " "brake, " and "lake."

A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.

The reader who wants to know what are the quietest, silliest, smelliest, wiggliest things in the world finds imaginative answers to these and other questions about superlatives.