For newly independent reader fans of ELEPHANT & PIGGIE, here’s a book featuring two best friends who love to have fun at the playground. Bruno likes straight-forward adventure while Lulu uses her over-the-top imagination to play. In two short, funny episodes, readers discover why Bruno and Lulu's different personalities help them become even better friends. With simple vocabulary and sentence structure, and told solely through speech bubbles, these adventures are just right for new readers.
"A playful, comic romp of a book for new readers." - Kirkus Reviews
"Speech bubbles of different colors delineate the dialogue, making it useful for those who’d like to put on a mini-play. Expect to see more adventures about this duo for emergent readers." - Booklist
"Lakin writes skillfully for this audience, injecting humor and clever teachable moments into her accessible text...Besides its obvious use as a first-class beginning reader, this might also make an entertaining readers theater performance piece." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
For newly independent reader fans of ELEPHANT & PIGGIE, here’s a book featuring two best friends who love to have fun at the playground. Bruno likes straight-forward adventure while Lulu uses her over-the-top imagination to play. In two short, funny episodes, readers discover why Bruno and Lulu's different personalities help them become even better friends. With simple vocabulary and sentence structure, and told solely through speech bubbles, these adventures are just right for new readers.
Praise
"A playful, comic romp of a book for new readers." - Kirkus Reviews
"Speech bubbles of different colors delineate the dialogue, making it useful for those who’d like to put on a mini-play. Expect to see more adventures about this duo for emergent readers." - Booklist
"Lakin writes skillfully for this audience, injecting humor and clever teachable moments into her accessible text...Besides its obvious use as a first-class beginning reader, this might also make an entertaining readers theater performance piece." - Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books
