Bill and Diane

I'm way behind and have been trying not to reply to this thread, since
it's probably died off by now, but mention of Sleepy Dog got me. This
has got to be the dumbest book I've ever seen--and my kids LOVE it! I
would have gotten rid of it right away if it'd been up to me, but no!
They have to have it!

I wonder if a lot of the difference of whether kids like these really
dumb "Bob" type VERY easy readers has to do with how old the kids are
when they're learning to read. I'm almost embarrassed on these boards to
say my kids are learning to read young, but they are, and they love
these very easy books. (Not the Bob ones, though. I found one in the
library about trains and it was the only train book Brian has ever not
loved.) My kids are not at all put off by the lack of sophistication in
these books. They liked Sleepy Dog and his ilk even before they started
learning to decode the words.

:-) Diane

>
>Reading his gameboy was my son's definition of when he could read. Not when
>he read Sleepy Dog, a very stupid (but much beloved) beginning reader that
>my Mom sent which was his first book, or any of those easy books.
>