My "b" Book

Jane Belk Moncure's Sound Box Books

by Jane Belk Moncure, Linda Hohag (Illustrator)

Little b goes for a walk and finds many things that begin with the letter "b" to put in her box.

Genres: Childrens, Picture Books, Fiction, Kids

29 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 1977

About the author

Jane Belk Moncure (born December 1926) is an American author of early childhood non-fiction, fiction and poetry. She has also written under the names Bruce Wannamaker and Jennie Davis.

Moncure has lived in Virginia and North Carolina. She worked in early childhood education for thirty-five years. She lives in Elon College, North Carolina.

Moncure is a creative and prolific author: there are millions of her books in circulation, and they are widely distributed in schools and libraries. Distribution has been primarily through The ChildsWorld, ChildrensPress and Scholastic. Her creations and works include My First Steps to Reading, My First Steps to Math, My First Steps to Science, Word Bird, The Soundbox Books, and The Magic Castle Series. Her works have been translated into British English, Spanish, French, Chinese, and Malay. Belk Library, Elon University holds a collection of all published books by Moncure.

Jane Belk Moncure is a recipient of the C.S. Lewis Award and over the past 20 years, her works were recognized by numerous Awards. Most recently, in 2008, Jane received the Scholastic Teacher's Choice Award for her outstanding contribution to the My First Steps to Learning Program. --from Wikipedia

Reviews

[Lorellie]

Great series, it seems so far.

[Cyndi]

I recently discovered these books as part of teaching the alphabet to preschoolers and I love them. What's more, the kids love them. There are pictures by some of the words so the kids can "read" along with me and get some of the words. I love this tactic of giving them a sense of being able to read, it is a big encouragement boost. There are tons of words for each letter and at the end there are pictures of each item with the word underneath for more reinforcement. Wish I could get all the books in the series.

[Yates Marie]

This book is all about the letter b. The little girl goes along and finds things to put in her box that begin with the letter b. Eventually she ends up on a boat with all of the other things that she found that begins with the letter b. Some of the things she finds are animals that begin with the letter b.

[Laura]

Love IT! I would love to get my hands on each and every My "letter" Box book! These books are such a great tools to introduce phonics and letter sounds. I love the way that Jane creates a story using different objects that have the B sound. I would love to use this book in a kindergarten classroom and as a resource for the students to use throughout the school year.

[Jillian]

Adequate for my needs - I'm doing an "A-Z storytime" series, and these books are going to be very useful. The repetition of the words is great, and I actually plan to use each book twice to reinforce the repetition (ooops, there's me skipping forward to R!).

[Tricia]

part of the sound box phonics series, this title is par for the course...repeating "b" words over and over to reinforce learning.

[Alicia]

We checked many of this series (I think the older version) at our library and it was so great to introduce letter sounds and rhyming.

[Miss Sarah]

A preschool and up book about the letter B with a little girl adding B items to her basket.

[Aarvik]

Nice read!

[The Crimson Fucker]

Little B had a bong..
I will fill my Bong
Little B put some Budd on her Bong…
Little B smoked the Budd..
She went for a walk….

[Azure]

i learned that bird, bathtub, bee, bat, ball,bush, bear, all start with "b".

[Olson Family Matters]

This and the other books in the "sound box" series worked great for helping Madelyn with her sounds. The story wasn't fantastic, but it was fun nonetheless.

[Molly]

GREAT for the letter B. We made our own sound box after reading this.

[Ashlie Johansen]

The Sound Box books are amazing for beginning readers. LOVE THEM!

[Katrina Kim]

The b- book is a very simple book

Great for ELL students; the illustrations are realistic, bold, and simple

The words are in bold letters

Students: Pre-K and Kindergarten

[Kayla]

A little girl has a sound box and only fills it up with things that start with the letter B. great beginner reader book. I could use this whole series for teaching sounds.

[Leslie]

My three year old son loved this book! It was a great way to incorporate lessons on letters into our reading. We will certainly be reading more of these "letter books".

[Kristina]

I thought that this was a good book for beginner readers. it definitely teaches the b sound.

[The Book Box]

Mama read this to me tonight Before tucking me into Bed! I liked identifying the words Based on the pictures.

[Little Champs]

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