Bob Books, Set 1: Beginning Readers

February 23, 2010 | By In Article |

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5 Comments so far

  1. Alouette1 on February 23rd, 2010

    I am in a family of artists. These books are terrible. I don’t know why I expected them to be more interesting because Amazon shows what they look like, but they are line drawings with basic words. I read my children poetry with beautiful prints or we sing and follow along or we draw to go along with poetry. I showed the first book to my two year old and she started crying.

    Back to the coffee table drawing books!
    Rating: 1 / 5

  2. lighten_up_already2 on February 23rd, 2010

    I’m currently working through these books with my children, one of whome is in Kindergarten. They made me long for the days of the “Tip and Mitten” and “Dick and Jane” readers.

    The drawings are of poor quality. I could draw better myself. And, more frusterating to me, there is no attempt at any kind of story. What there is consists of random sentence fragments concentrated around certain phonetics. The sentence fragments get longer as one progresses through the book.

    What does work in these books is the progression of usage of words from very simple to slightly more complex by the end of the book, and the series concept allows the child to slowly build competence in reading as s/he works through the books.

    So, they’re not all bad and I am working with them, but do yourself a favor and unless your local school system has you roped into using them at home in conjunction with the child’s schooling, look around and see what your other options are.
    Rating: 2 / 5

  3. HKB on February 23rd, 2010

    I bought these books together with “Teaching your Child to Read in a 100 Easy Lesson” and was disappointed. The print, though neat, was like hand writing and was confusing. My son thought the pictures looked like “Humpty Dumpty” not Sam and it teaches so many names, Dot, Sam, Mat, are these needed? My son never picks these books up on his own, they were a disappointment to us.
    Rating: 1 / 5

  4. MissD on February 23rd, 2010

    This is exactly what I was looking for – something simple and fun. My daughter was interested in reading but we could not find any books that were for real beginners. This is it. They are short, fun, and very cute. My daughter gets excited to read. Can’t wait to get the next set.
    Rating: 5 / 5

  5. Spinner's End on February 24th, 2010

    My three year old daughter just had a realization. The words I read to her are already printed on the pages of books; they’re not a combination of sight-reading and imaginative narration based on illustrations. The words are ALL there . . . and SHE can read them!

    She has known all of her letter sounds for about a year. She’s been able to sound out words reliably for about six months. She’s been reluctant to read books on her own . . . until she got her Bob Books today. She blazed through the first three in a few minutes. Each book gets a bit more challenging, with more sounds represented and longer words and sentences. She responded well to the idea that she had to read a book cover-to-cover without help before she can have the next book. She’s DYING to know what’s in the next book, but she’ll have to wait until after dinner!

    These are the first books she has READ. She sounded out every word she didn’t know without saying, “Just read it for me, Mom.” She was genuinely enthusiastic; not exasperated after a page or two, like she usually is with other books. She loves the illustrations.

    I don’t know who will is more amazed: my daughter or me. The missing ingredient in our reading program has been confidence. I think the Bob Books helped us clear a huge hurdle. I hope your new reader will take to these like mine did.
    Rating: 5 / 5

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