Jack and Rick (Green Light Readers Level 1)
PreSchool-Grade 1-Two good choices for children who are just beginning  to decode words and need to know that they can read a whole  book. In Home, Matt, a squirrel, is new in the neighborhood and  has no friends. When Pam (another squirrel) loses her hat, he  catches it and returns it. Now, each of them has a new friend.  The story is short and sweet, and good for the earliest readers.  Each spread features one or two sentences against a white  background on one side and a full-page illustration on the  other. In Jack and Rick, a rabbit and a bear want to play  together but are on opposite sides of a stream. Jack can't lift  a tree limb to make a bridge so Rick throws him a rope so that  they can pull the limb over. When Rick tries to cross the  bridge, however, he falls in and his rabbit friend pulls him  out. It's a simple plot about friends helping one another, with  one sentence per page and a softly colored, uncluttered  illustration above it. It is next to impossible to create an  interesting plot using so few easy words. These titles succeed  better than most.Susan Lissim, Dwight School, New York CityCopyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.