Sweet success in learning to read with sweet "I dream of an Elephant" book!

"I Dream of an Elephant" - An endearing book by author Ami Rubinger

Reading success isn't always measured by how much your child can read, or by the size of the words they can sound out.  Sometimes the sweetest succes is simply in how much your child enjoyed reading a particular book, and how they voluntarily wanted to participate in the reading.

"I Dream of an Elephant" is another (as well as any by author Mem Fox) one of those books that children just begining to read (pre-schoolers), or even older children who are new to English will love !!!  This book sets them up for success! 

Author, Ami Rubinger has written this book in a format that is fun, it rhymes and there are easy-to-read visual clues. The text is set up for the rhyme on each page to be completed by the color name and the  picture spreads are colored in shades of the particular color. Throughout the book the elephants travel and change to a new scene drawn in a different color.  A great topic - colours, and  great character - the Elephant! Both always seems to be of interest to young children! 

Because the rhyming and the page colours lead the child to the correct answer (and they don't even realize it), they nearly always come up with the appropriate rhyming end word, and man (!!!), do they feel like they are a reading genius!  Oh, sweet success!

We have a copy of this book, here at the St. Monica library!  If you would like to try this one out and read it with your child, encourage them to ask the librarian for it when they come for their library period.

I can hear the proud giggles now, and see the sweet smiles.  Happy reading!