I'm Going to Read® (Level 1): Can You Play?

by Emily Bolam (Illustrator)

Stella's ready for some fun and games--and Buffy her puppy's the perfect playmate. "Throw...and catch! Throw...and catch." Then, it's time for some doggie tricks. But Buffy will only SIT DOWN and SIT she won't try anything new. But here's Stella's friend Sam. Maybe he can help with a stunt or two... Sprightly rhyming text and cartoon-like pictures capture all the antics.

28 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2005

About the author

Emily Bolam is a British children's author and illustrator. She was born in Buckinghamshire in 1969.. She studied at Amersham College and Brighton College of Art under the tutelage of well known illustrators John Vernon Lord and Chris McEwan. Her first idea for a children's book began as a college project and was published upon her graduation.

Since then, Emily has illustrated over a hundred books for children, by many different authors, including Georgie Adams, Vivian French and Francesca Simon. She has worked with publishers such as Penguin, Macmillan, Orchard Books and Orion amongst many others.

She continues to live and work in Brighton where she shares her studio with other artists and illustrators.


Nació en 1969 en Buckinghamshire, zona de la campiña inglesa. Estudió ilustración en el Brighton College of Art con los reconocidos ilustradores John Vernon Lord y Chris McEwan. Su primera idea para un libro infantil surgió como un proyecto de la universidad, que fue publicado tras su graduación. Ha ilustrado muchos libros para niños. Actualmente vive en Brighton.

Reviews

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a very simple and repetitive reading primer for young children. The illustrations are fun and the narrative is short and only has 50 words (as advertised on the front cover), so it's perfect for new readers. I like that it is a bit longer than the books our youngest is bringing home from Kindergarten, so it challenges her to read more, but it's not too hard. We enjoyed reading this together.

[Tori · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this is the correct edition. It's for early readers, so there was this running word bank at the tops of the pages...which I found disturbing because it was just the words that appeared on the page below, just scrambled and in a lighter font. It felt like the story was haunting itself.

The drawings were cute, though. The little Scotty-doggie-thing named Buffy was worth at least two stars.

[Jaymarie Matias · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is really good for my sister she is now the best reader I know she's so smart

[L. Leah · Rating 4 out of 5]

My First Grader read this one to me in the library. Only a few words threw her off but we sounded them out and completed the book. All 50 words read! Proud of my little reader!!