"I'm not scared!" Book

* * * Read to me by my niece Emma * * *

A little owl with his stuffed animal "Owly" go for a walk in the woods at night and well-meaning nocturnal folks like bats and badgers pop out from behind trees and whatnot, frightening the poop out of the poor little guy, to ask if he should be out at night. He's not scared, he reassures them, but they are scaring Owly! Cute stuff.

Emma plowed through I'm Not Scared! mostly with ease, hamming it up towards the end by reading in a sing-song voice. She didn't try to skip pages and nor did her attention wander. I quiet liked the big colorful pictures, and appreciate that now during reading time that's all I have to do...well, aside from occasionally correcting her.

This was somewhat light reading for Emma, who's heading into second grade. I'm no expert on the reading levels of kids these days (I'm still trying to figure out what this "AR" thing is), but I'd say this would be good for kids about halfway through with first grade. Again, don't quote me on that, but Emma whizzed through most of this, only stumbling over a larger word like "decided" or because her eyes are racing ahead of her mouth.