Thursday, August 5, 2010

Bailey School Kids: Knights don't Teach Piano by Debbie Dadley & Marcia Thornton Jones (Ill)

Part of the Bailey School Kids series from Scholastic, this transitional reader follows the kids as they take piano lessons from a knight presented to one of the boys as a guest to his Knight-themed birthday party. After seeing suspicious things at the knight's house during a lesson, the gang decide they need to devise a plan to protect Bailey City from a suspected invasion by the knight and his fellow round table friends on horseback. Pencil drawing

Merit: Short (66 pp), simple vocabulary for transitional readers to chapter books.
Share: Read aloud or have reader to.
Appeal: Close friends working through adventures, utilizing advantages of the strengths of each member.

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