The New Puppy (Bob Books Stories: Scholastic Reader, Level 1)

We love bobs books for our early reader

Ok. Right now Amazon has the two books listed as the same one with various paperback editions. So for now, both reviews are here combined. First The New Puppy, and the Cupcake Surprise!Our first Early Reader experience with the Bob Books was met with much excitement in my family. We have been working with the My First Bob Books Series (Alphabet and Pre-Reading) for several weeks not (review to come...) and so AppleBlossom recognized the Bob Books logo and was very excited to continue to "read for fun" (and educational value!). The first book in the series is The New Puppy, where Jack and Anna really want a new puppy and Mom and Dad explain the responsibilities and these two get to join an adventure on the possibilities.Not only do I trust this book because I love the Bob Books company, but the story is great and right on par with an early reader. While at this point we're not quite there yet, she loves for me to read these to her already and then she stares at the pages and is re-telling me what happened. I think she might even recognize the word "dogs" from the repetition. The colors are great, and the pictures are fun. I'm just ridiculously giddy to know that even when we finish everything with the sets, that there are more books for my girls to explore.This specific book works well geared toward boy or girl because of the sibling set and I think that many families are going to find that these Early Readers will become staples in their schooling much like the Sets before them.My goodness what fun this one is! Right about the time where the reading level of this book is right your kiddos want to follow around and truly help in the kitchen. This is a great one to entice them to do something for someone else as well as learn (maybe a homeschool science lesson?). This one is just as fun as the first, and I definitely find it to be a sequel as The New Puppy makes an appearance! (But of course they can be read alone!) Fun from the cover to the end page everyone in your family will love this one.At the end of each of the Bob Books Early Readers you will find a page or a few of Flashcards to use. I think these are great. My plan is to take them out and laminate them for multiple use and durability. Then they can be used for word memorization and story plotting as to what happens next. There are many possibilities.The Cupcake Surprise! is a great one for family and I just love watching the mom in the background watching her kids as they experience life and learn value skills and lessons. This one is special to me in that it will teach how to take something as a mistake and make it work and go from there rather than fall into pieces of ruin. If these two Bob Books Early Readers are anything to show for what is to expect, well then this is one purely delighted mama.

Love Bob books.