A Fantastic Way to Encourage Young Readers (Cars Race Team - Dennis R. Shealy)

Member Name: DavyMichelle

Product:	Cars Race Team - Dennis R. Shealy
Date:	26/05/09 (13 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Popular Characters, Simple Sentences, Low Price, Great Illustrations

Disadvantages: Lots of Text Here

Cars Race Team is another level 1 book from the Step Into Reading Series. If you've got a little one, especially a little boy, who's having trouble getting interested in learning to read then this is definetely a book for you! Amazon have it for only £2.62 at the moment which is a small price to pay for such a great little book that youngsters are bound to love.

The grandson has only just recently given this one a try, having already read quite a few other level 1 / beginner reader books. This isn't the sort of book a very young child who is a complete beginner would be able to manage, but a slightly older beginner might (maybe five or six years?) or a younger child like the grandson who has already gotten to grips with quite a few key words as well as the principal of phonetically sounding out new words he isn't sure of.

The words in this are kept relatively simple, excluding the car's names which of course can't be helped, and the sentences are short and sweet too. But there are quite of sentences per page. As an example, the first two pages read:

"Lightning McQueen is going to a race. Mack will take him. All the cars get ready."

That's not a particularly tricky sentence, but if your child had to have help to read every single word there, then they're quickly going to get frustrated and fed up of this book. If like the grandson they're likely to already know the little words like "is, to, a, the" then they'll get a real kick out of being able to read longer pages of text.

The illustrations in this book are top quality, and are very similar to the illustrations from the Disney film these characters come from. If your child is already familiar with the film characters, they'll hopefully not find the names too difficult to read as they'll be able to work out a lot of them from the brilliant pictures that accompany every page.

Summary: Highly Recommended