Yukiko Kido

Humorous illustrations and die-cut pages introduce short vowel sounds, consonant blends, and word families in this Flip-a-word book.

Humorous illustrations and die-cut pages introduce words of the same family, such as beet, feet, and street, and then combine them in often-improbable phrases, including "beet on feet" or "feet meet."

"With bright art done in the Japanese anime style, each book in this interactive early reading series features three different word families. When kids flip the pages, they get a new word and image within that word family. Word families help children recognize similarities between words that rhyme, and help them connect words with similar long or short vowel sounds. This familiarity helps kids read a word they don't necessarily know"-- Provided by...

The concepts of "half dozen" and "dozen" are taught by counting items such as pigs, goldfish, socks, and feet.