title: Bug in a Rug: Reading Fun for Just-beginners
author:  Joanna Cole 
description: PreSchool-Grade 2-This collection of early reading activities and stories will please parents, teachers, and children if used in the gamelike manner suggested by the authors. Starting with alphabet and letter-recognition activities, the book progresses through initial consonant sounds, using picture cues to help children identify words, simple rhyming stories, easy rebuses, and finally a series of one- to five-word stories in which the illustrations show most of the action. Many pages offer suggestions for more activities. While the stories are not as inventive as those in Allan Ahlberg's readers, the illustrations are colorful and apt, the print size is generous, and the variety of contents keeps the text interesting. This will be just the ticket for those perennial requests for "a book that can help my child learn to read."-Louise L. Sherman, Anna C. Scott School, Leonia, NJ<br />Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
zlib_text: Viola in the Spotlight
  
  Adriana Trigiani
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For my beloved librarians,
  
  Billie Jean Scott
  
  James Varner
  
  And in memory of
  
  Ernestine Roller
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Contents
  
  [One](index_split_003.html#filepos4551)
  
  THERE IS NO BETTER PLACE ON EARTH THAN RIGHT here…
  
  [Two](index_split_004.html#filepos33270)
  
  CAITLIN HELPS ME DRAPE THE PRESSED RED-AND-WHITE-CHECKED tablecloth over the…
  
  [Three](index_split_005.html#filepos60210)
  
  MRS. PULLAPILLY MAKES A KILLER TANDOORI CHICKEN. Slow cooked, rubbed with…
  
  [Four](index_split_006.html#filepos93516)
  
  “WHAT’S WRONG?” ANDREW OPENS THE DOOR TO the Bozellis’ apartment…
  
  [Five](index_split_007.html#filepos136121)
  
  THE DOG-WALKING JOB IS GIVING ME A PLACE I HAVE…
  
  [Six](index_split_008.html#filepos169651)
  
  THE FINAL DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST PREVIEW OF A Broadway…
  
  [Seven](index_split_009.html#filepos200039)
  
  SUZANNE HAS ARRANGED ANOTHER FOUR-WAY SKYPE from her mom’s office.
  
  [Eight](index_split_010.html#filepos221113)
  
  THE R TRAIN NEVER HAS A CAR WITH AIR