Mud on the Van in the Little Blossom Stories series uses curriculum based fiction and decodable text to get children comfortable with reading--while telling a counting story. Each book in this series uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition and confi...

Mud on the Van in the Little Blossom Stories series uses curriculum based fiction and decodable text to get children comfortable with reading--while telling a counting story. Each book in this series uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition and confidence. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text. Text and format is created by Cecilia Minden, PhD, a literacy consultant and former director of the Language and Literacy program at Harvard Graduate School of Education.