Samantha (Bob Book)

Samantha
Bob Books Set 4 Book 5
by
Bobby Lynn Maslen and John R. Maslen

Samantha is one of a series of books for new readers. Simple line drawings are accompanied by short words and short sentences in these small books. I had to show this picture because we laughed a lot about it. Samantha doesn't want to get up and go to school, but her parents cook a good smelling breakfast and this is how she reacts. She looks like she has encountered a Van de Graaff generator. See picture.

Bob Books

A set of Bob Books (set 2, books 1-12) (titles vary)

by

Bobby Lynn Maslen and John R. Maslen

ages 3-6

I had heard about this series of books designed to use just a few short words in each book to encourage beginning readers, but didn't get around to reading them until now.

All the words are only one, two, three, or four letters long. There is a list of which words each book uses. The illustrations are simple line drawings. The letter "a" used is the kind that is a circle with a line. All of these make them ideal for classroom or home use. I wouldn't buy them for home use, since the child would quickly outgrow them, but they are good buys for school and public libraries.

My library had it set up so patrons check out the entire 12 book set all at once. I was done with a few of them before others and would have prefered to check in volumes 1-4, but had to wait and keep track of which ones I had already read then turn them in all at once. Fortunately the color coded covers helped jog my memory about where I was in the series.