Overview

""The city has fun parks! Do you want to play with me?"" Brand new readers can join a duck for a day out in an urban park. The words in this book are super easy to read for kids just learning to decode. Silly illustrations will have your child giggling as they read. 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.

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9781087971124

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Abba Dab (online retail reviewer) Cute and engaging story for first readers I love the whimsy with which Margolin has combined the animal cartoons with photographs. The story makes sense and the text is decodable. There are plenty of opportunities to ask comprehension and extension questions (e.g., Who do you think said that? What would you want to do first? Which animal is on the slide? Where is the duck's body? ) I couldn't find Shindig on each page of the kindle download unless I zoomed in. I want to visit this park! Bonus points for a fun variety of animals. ErinP (online retail reviewer) Fun for new readers and not-quite-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 trip to a city park. There's a playground, there's a splash park. The kids get wet and dirty. There's a toddler throwing a tantrum in the background. A wonderfully diverse collection of people (well, anthropomorphic animals) that you might see in a real city park. I love that all of Margolin's beginning readers feature locations that could realistically be part of a beginning reader's life. This park doesn't look quite like ours, but my son had all kinds of questions about it and he definitely wants to visit this park himself. There's lots to discuss about the text, the pictures, the people in the story, even beyond the simple and relatable story lines. We bought all of the books of this series except one (which I left out by accident) and when my son realized it was missing, he begged me to go back to Amazon and buy it right away so he can read it. 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.

Author Information

R.L. Margolin is an author and illustrator 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.

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