I Like My Car (I Like to Read)

PreS-Gr 1--With illustrations perfectly matched to the text, this series entry introduces beginning readers to short, easily identifiable words and colors. Each turn of the page introduces a new color word into the title sentence: "I like my (blue) car." Readers travel from one page to the next, down the "road" to see each appropriately hued, patterned, and decorated vehicles of nine cartoon, anthropomorphic characters--for example, a rhinoceros drives a red car with a horned hood ornament, a giraffe sits at the wheel of a spotted yellow car, a shark flashes a grin within the watery interior of a finned black car, a crocodile holds the wheel on a green car with a sharp, toothy grill, and a cheetah rules the road in a spotted purple coupe with yet more spots on the dice above his head. This colorful work for the very youngest of independent readers may encourage confidence in identification of words and word patterns through its eye-catching illustrations and text repetition. VERDICT A suggested general purchase.--Mary Elam, Learning Media Services, Plano ISD, TX