Syd Hoff’s beloved Danny and the Dinosaur are here tohelp kids learn to read with phonics!

This set of twelve simple and fun Danny and the Dinosaurstorybooks is an excellent choice to share with your beginning reader. Its afun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for childrenages three to six.Enter into the world of reading with My First I CanRead!

Reviewed by a phonics expert, these twelve short full-colorbooks feature repeated examples of short and long vowel sounds and common sightwords. Each of the simple stories in this box set is designed to teach kids howto master reading with Syd Hoff’s popular and award-winning classic series,Danny and the Dinosaur.

Phonics teaches children the relationship between lettersand the sounds they make. A child who has mastered these relationships has anexcellent foundation for learning to read and spell. According to the NationalInstitute of Child Health & Human Development, a child who has learnedphonics has a method to recognize familiar words and decode unfamiliar ones.

About the Author

Syd Hoffhas given much pleasure to childreneverywhere as the author and illustrator of numerous childrens books,including the favorite I Can Read booksSammy the Seal,TheHorse in Harrys Room, and the Danny and the Dinosaur books. Born andraised in New York City, he studied at the National Academy of Design.

Hiscartoons were a regular feature in theNew Yorkerafter hesold his first cartoon to that magazine at the age of eighteen. His work alsoappeared in many other magazines, includingEsquireandtheSaturday Evening Post, and in a nationally syndicated dailyfeature.