1st Grade Reading Success Boxed Set

Best Friends, Duck & Cat's Rainy Day, Big Shark, Little Shark, Drop It, Rocket! The Amazing Planet Earth

Help your 1st grader learn to read with 5 books from the #1 early reader line, Step into Reading! Remember, a lifetime love of reading starts with a single Step!

This boxed set of five Step 1 books is perfect for independent reading at home or in the classroom. Emergent readers will be engaged by the simple words, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, and picture clues that support word identification while being entertained with friendship stories, sharks, dogs, cats, and more! Titles chosen especially for your 1st grader are: Drop It, Rocket; Big Shark, Little Shark; Best Friends; Duck & Cat's Rainy Day; and StoryBots: The Amazing Planet Earth.
MARGERY CUYLER has written dozens of books for children, and she edited many more in her career as an editor. She loves to interact with children on her author visits to schools and enjoys hiking, biking, and entertaining. She and her husband, the parents of two grown sons, live in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. You can visit her website at margerycuyler.com.

About the illustrator:

DAVID L. WALKER is super grateful that he gets to draw and paint every day for a living. He has designed stickers, children’s fabrics, and greeting cards, and has written and illustrated children’s books! You can visit his website at davidwalkerstudios.com. View titles by Margery Cuyler
CARIN BRAMSEN is the illustrator of The Yellow Tutu as well as the author and illustrator of Hey, Duck!Just a Duck?, and Sleepover Duck. You can visit her at carinbramsen.com View titles by Carin Bramsen
ANNA MEMBRINO es editora, escritora y jugadora de Ultimate Frisbee. Es autora de I Want to Be a Ballerina, Big Shark, Little Shark, y la serie I Look Up to... Anna vive en la ciudad de Nueva York.

TIM BUDGEN nació en Surrey, Inglaterra, y es ilustrador independiente y profesor de arte. Durante gran parte de su vida, ha estado anotando ideas y, por lo general, se le puede encontrar con un lápiz en una mano y un cuaderno de bocetos en la otra. Vive en una isla frente a la costa de Inglaterra, ¡y seguramente hay tiburones en las aguas allí! View titles by Anna Membrino
Tad Hills is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rocket and Duck & Goose series, including the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read; Rocket Writes a Story; R Is for Rocket; Duck & Goose; Duck, Duck, Goose; Duck & Goose Go to the Beach; and Duck & Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo! He also created various board books in these series, including Rocket’s Mighty Words; Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin; the ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book What’s Up, Duck?: A Book of Opposites; Duck & Goose: Here Comes the Easter Bunny!; and several Step Into Reading titles, including Drop It, Rocket! and Rocket’s 100th Day of School.
 
The Boston Globe declared Hills’s work “charming, funny, simple, and surprising” and dubbed him “a master of the light comic touch.”
 
Tad lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, two children, and his real-life dog, Rocket, who has not yet learned to read.
 
Visit Tad online at tadhills.com, and follow him on Twitter at @tadhills. View titles by Tad Hills

About

Help your 1st grader learn to read with 5 books from the #1 early reader line, Step into Reading! Remember, a lifetime love of reading starts with a single Step!

This boxed set of five Step 1 books is perfect for independent reading at home or in the classroom. Emergent readers will be engaged by the simple words, rhyme, rhythm, and repetition, and picture clues that support word identification while being entertained with friendship stories, sharks, dogs, cats, and more! Titles chosen especially for your 1st grader are: Drop It, Rocket; Big Shark, Little Shark; Best Friends; Duck & Cat's Rainy Day; and StoryBots: The Amazing Planet Earth.

Author

MARGERY CUYLER has written dozens of books for children, and she edited many more in her career as an editor. She loves to interact with children on her author visits to schools and enjoys hiking, biking, and entertaining. She and her husband, the parents of two grown sons, live in Lawrenceville, New Jersey. You can visit her website at margerycuyler.com.

About the illustrator:

DAVID L. WALKER is super grateful that he gets to draw and paint every day for a living. He has designed stickers, children’s fabrics, and greeting cards, and has written and illustrated children’s books! You can visit his website at davidwalkerstudios.com. View titles by Margery Cuyler
CARIN BRAMSEN is the illustrator of The Yellow Tutu as well as the author and illustrator of Hey, Duck!Just a Duck?, and Sleepover Duck. You can visit her at carinbramsen.com View titles by Carin Bramsen
ANNA MEMBRINO es editora, escritora y jugadora de Ultimate Frisbee. Es autora de I Want to Be a Ballerina, Big Shark, Little Shark, y la serie I Look Up to... Anna vive en la ciudad de Nueva York.

TIM BUDGEN nació en Surrey, Inglaterra, y es ilustrador independiente y profesor de arte. Durante gran parte de su vida, ha estado anotando ideas y, por lo general, se le puede encontrar con un lápiz en una mano y un cuaderno de bocetos en la otra. Vive en una isla frente a la costa de Inglaterra, ¡y seguramente hay tiburones en las aguas allí! View titles by Anna Membrino
Tad Hills is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rocket and Duck & Goose series, including the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read; Rocket Writes a Story; R Is for Rocket; Duck & Goose; Duck, Duck, Goose; Duck & Goose Go to the Beach; and Duck & Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo! He also created various board books in these series, including Rocket’s Mighty Words; Duck & Goose Find a Pumpkin; the ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book What’s Up, Duck?: A Book of Opposites; Duck & Goose: Here Comes the Easter Bunny!; and several Step Into Reading titles, including Drop It, Rocket! and Rocket’s 100th Day of School.
 
The Boston Globe declared Hills’s work “charming, funny, simple, and surprising” and dubbed him “a master of the light comic touch.”
 
Tad lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, two children, and his real-life dog, Rocket, who has not yet learned to read.
 
Visit Tad online at tadhills.com, and follow him on Twitter at @tadhills. View titles by Tad Hills

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