Storytime Stickers: Day of the Dragons Book

5-7 years

Beginning reader

This book was only just okay. I chose it because it has photos of Lego people doing Lego activities, which I know would interest a lot of children, especially boys. Although it has short sentences, and not a lot of words on each page, the words used are actually pretty difficult for beginning readers. It feels more like a transitional reader in language, but looks beginning reader in topic and amount of words on a page. An example sentence is, "A delivery for the supermarket arrives at the railway station." I think a beginning reader should be just a bit simplified, especially when the book is mostly going to appeal to the very young child.

I would use this book as an independent reader for a child who is great at sounding out words and enjoys the challenge of larger words but is intimidated by a lot of words on each page. This book would allow this child to feel successful in reading. It's also great if a child has an especial interest in Legos, because the pictures are really cute little Lego people doing things like fighting Lego fires and shopping in Lego stores.