Goat in a Boat

by Sally Grindley

This progressive phonics series helps beginning readers to build reading confidence. With an engaging story alongside beautiful illustrations--this first step to reading offers on-page pronunciations and notes to teachers and parents.

Paperback

First published July 1, 2010

About the author

I came into children's books originally as Editorial Director of a nationwide children's book club, though I had written and directed a children's play while a student at Sussex University, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. I wrote my first two children's picture books in 1984 and was lucky enough that Anthony Browne wanted to illustrate the second - Knock Knock Who's There? It was published in 1985, is still going strong today and is one of my most successful.

Shhh! was published in 1991 and has known great success in France/Belgium in particular (close on 300,000 copies sold). It's success in the UK - it won the Children's Book Award - was hampered by the liquidation of its original publisher.

I became a full-time author in 1995 and now have some 150+ titles published, the most recent being L'Histoire du Soir in France, Belgium and Italy.

Feather Wars, published in 2003, was my first sortie into young fiction and was followed by the very successful Spilled Water, which has been published in some ten different languages and is very popular in schools as a class reader. It won the Nestle Smarties Gold Award (and I wound up being a 'Pointless' answer on the back of it!) Broken Glass came next and was a Sunday Times Book of the Week.

I'm currently working on picture books again and have plans to illustrate one of my own in the not too distant future - watch this space!

Reviews

[Rose Rosetree · Rating 5 out of 5]

Sally Grindley is a superb phonics novelist. This book keeps readers so busy, we may forget that we're learning phonics. And English.

We're learning how to recognize, then blend, the OA sound.

Goat and toad make amusing companions on this reading journey. For instance:

Goat floats past a rock.
Toad jumps onto the rock.

Goat grins at Toad.

FIVE STARS for a fun-loving, phonics-learning, reader that is targeted for a very specific purpose. Brilliant!

[Sarah Ashburn · Rating 3 out of 5]

What a great way to teach words that have similar sounds but different beginning sounds. This book is a simple book for new readers. I love the rhyming in the book! I think young children would really enjoy this because many words would be repeated making it easier to read. Good to teach beginning sounds and how they make a difference.

[Heather Jo · Rating 4 out of 5]

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