Students will enjoy developing their reading skills with these lavishly illustrated and entertaining tales by popular author Joy Cowley. Mrs. Wishy-Washy, the Meanies, the Jigaree, and Dan, the Flying Man are just a few of the well-loved characters found in these shared reading titles.

Each story supports instruction in new phonics elements and incorporates elements and high frequency words that have been previously taught.

For Shared Reading and Writing. Features rhyme, rhythm and repetition. Storylines are full of humour that children will love. Age range: 4-9. Provides thorough coverage of the Literacy Strategy requirements for Foundation (P1), Year 1 (P2), and Year 2 (P3).

Sam wants a pet for her birthday, but her mom and dad have already said that their apartment is too small for a cat or a dog. A trip to Rainbow Street Shelter to look at the smaller animals can't hurt, though! At the shelter, Sam finds the perfect pet for her, a fluffy black guinea pig named Henry. But she can't help noticing how happy her little brother is when he's reading to Nelly, the Rainbow Street dog. Why can't he read like that when he's in school? Nelly looks happy, too. Sam starts to wonder . . . can a dog go to kindergarten?

Another wipe-clean board book is about to be added to the immensely popular Mrs Wishy-Washy series. Joy Cowley and Elizabeth Fuller have pooled their talents once more to tell the story of the messy meanies who decide to play splashy-sploshy with some paint they discover in the garden shed. Then along comes a very angry Mrs Wishy-Washy! She scrub-a-dubs the ceiling, she scrub-a-dubs the door, she scrub-a-dubs the windows and then she tubs and scrubs those meanies and hangs them out to dry! Young children love the rhyming silliness of that clean-freak Mrs Wishy-Washy and the messy little creatures she encounters on her travels.

Little Fish has all sorts of fishy friends in his underwater home, but loves one of them most of all.

This charming version of a well-known chant takes place on the African savanna In this beautifully illustrated rendition of a well-known children's chant, two sisters are looking not for a bear but for a lion—a lion that lives on the African savanna, where the girls go through swishy-swashy long grass, a splishy-splashy lake, and a Big Dark Cave. When they finally meet their lion, they have to run, run, run through it all again to get back home. Young readers will enjoy the playful language and beautiful paintings that reset a familiar story in a far-off part of the world.