The life-like, richly colored illustrations in this story reflect the friendship between Nick and Jill as they try to find a new hat for Jill. Nick doesn’t want a hat, but when their search reveals that Nick could use a cap to improve his baseball skills, he changes his mind. An early reader for young children, the book introduces new words with phonic similarities that comfortably build a child’s reading skills. Target Reader 9 is part of Phonics Adventure’s systematic, leveled reading program.

In this exciting series of brightly illustrated adventure-filled tales, children will love the first story of a game of ball with Zag and the cat. After knocking over a fan in the house with a ball, Zag and the cat discover that playing ball is an outside game. Zag becomes a champ by hitting a ball that hits the van and enters a can. The bold colors light up the pages, encouraging children to use the picture and context clues to follow the story as they learn to sound out the words. Target Reader 1 is part of Phonics Adventure’s systematic, leveled reading program.

Ken, Jill, and their pet monkey Zig continue their adventures with a mountain hike. As usual, Zig’s misbehavior creates mayhem when he’s scared trying to make friends with a group of smelly skunks and then scares a flock of colorful ducks. Zig redeems himself when again he saves Jill from a big bug. The exceptionally well-illustrated facial expressions of these fanciful characters and the wildlife on the pages provide excellent context clues as early readers master their new reading skills. Target Reader 20 is part of Phonics Adventure’s systematic, leveled reading program.