Whales and Snails and Heavenly Tales by Jean Bischel. Illustrated by M. L. Bischel. A children’s phonetic reader with 20 short stories and beautiful full color illustrations on each page. These stories taken together stress, through gentle repetition, the sounds of consonants, long and short vowels, digraphs, dipthongs, soft G, soft C, OO, and the third sounds of A, O and U. This book is intended as a supplement to teaching children to read with phonics. It should be of interest to all children, regardless of the method used in teaching them to read. Laminated hardcover, sewn signatures, 60 lb. cream paper, 7”x 8.5” size, 44 pages. |