This beginning reader set provides young students with small activity booklet/readers that can be read at a very primary level. The author combines simple words that can be read phonetically with one or two sight words in each booklet that the child will learn to recognize (words like: "look", "go" and "the"). I thought the illustrations were more appealing than those found in the Bob Books.

A number of the stories include a blank to insert the reader's name and a few family names into the story. I thought this was a clever idea since many children to learn to write and recognize their own name even before they are reading. There are also little puzzles, word-and-picture matching and writing practice.

The "Ready for Reading" booklets are very appealing to little children (who always seem to love little books, especially when they come in a neat package), and I'm sure there are many four and five year olds who would delight in having these little workbook sets for their special schooltime. Even as I write, my almost-five-year-old has been asking and asking for me to finish reviewing these books so that she can use them and color them in.

Using "Angela" as an example of the reader's name (that the reader or parent can fill in), these are the titles of the booklets - "The Angela Book", "Angela Can", "Angela's Family Book", "The Pig is in the Mud", "The Big Hat", "Little Christina" (younger sibling name to be filled in), "Is it a Cat?", "Yes-No Workbook", "Go to Bed", "Treasure Hunt", "Dog is Fed", "Angela can Bat".

The booklets have glossy, color covers and black and white illustrations that could be colored in by the child. The text includes teaching suggestions in small print right alongside the student work! These include helps for common problems that children run into.