This charming family adventure uses bold colors and detail to illustrate a family’s voyage on a ferry with their pet dog, Vick. Using repetitive phonic sounds to enrich a child’s vocabulary, the story promotes good reading skills. The family rides in their van as it drives onto the ferry. Vick is fed dog food, and learns that seagulls like his food also. Vick goes after a seagull. The children worry about Vick chasing the gulls and learn that the birds are too fast for him to harm them. Target Reader 11 is part of Phonics Adventure’s systematic, leveled reading program.

The audacious monkey, Bell, returns with Ben and Nell and goes to the circus. Beginning readers will enjoy Bell’s hilarious pranks that prompt the circus manager to race around the circus arena trying to catch Bell. Parents can use Bell’s antics as an opportunity to discuss good behavior. The dazzling illustrations assist the early reader in following the context clues to understand the story and sound out the words. Target Reader 6 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.