How Rocket Learned to Read

Hills, Tad (2010). How Rocket Learned to Read. New York, NY: Random House, Inc.

Rocket is a dog who meets a little yellow bird while he is trying to take a nap under a tree. The little yellow bird is a teacher and her "class" meets under the tree. When he tells her he was just there to take a nap, she insists on teaching him all about the "wondrous, mighty, gorgeous alphabet." After a little apprehensiveness, he decides to join her and listens to stories and learns the letters of the alphabet.  Before he knows it, he has learned to spell and read!!

The illustrations are very well done. Pages are filled with rich greens and blues of nature as well as the cute black and white puppy Rocket and the little yellow bird. The pages are very appealing to young children. My daughter loved the book and was excited to see familiar letters spelling familiar decodable words built into the illustrations.