

The last is what makes this series so special. In the Elephant and Piggie books, Willems effortlessly combines elements required for this learning to read genre, like word repetition and sight word inclusion, with comedy, terrific illustrations and a great story-line. Seuss book, similar in size and feel, with a bit less text than the longer-winded Seuss books. Today I Will Fly! is the first in this welcome new learn-to-read series by Mo Willems. For all those pigeons fans out there, check out the endpapers (the inside, back cover of the books).

Your young reader should be able to read it by themselves after only a few shared readings, the picture clues and vocabulary choice and repetition are that good.In a few short pages, with spare prose, Willems has created a suspenseful story that will have you and your young reader hooked from start to finish.It will have your reader laughing out loud.This is a brilliantly conceived new learn to read series by the author of the Pigeon books (Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus).
