Customer Reviews

Eat My Dust! Henry Ford's First Race (Step into Reading)

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Keeping interesting reading for a beginning reader is always a challenge. Henry Ford's First Race was a winner, especially with our six year old son. The cover is now curled from repeated reading.

My son enjoys this series and I look forward to reading it with him. Mostly I'm writing for the reviewer that asked about the images in the Kindle version. The graphics throughout the story are cute. The picture of the historic race is grainey, which is to be expected.

I must admit, my kindergartener and I are great fans of the Step Into Reading series of books. Since my daughter had completed the Step 2 books in the Step Into Reading series of books, I decided to go ahead and purchase the Step 3 books. I was a bit hesitant because I noticed there is quite a big leap between the Step 2 and Step 3 books, especially in terms of vocabulary and sentence structure. The vocabulary is more advanced with higher order words, and the sentences are longer. I was also concerned that my daughter might not like the topics which seemed to be more 'academic' with history-based stories. My worries were unfounded. She loves the books and is reading them with very little help from me (and I enjoy listening to the stories!)

These books are excellent for building children's reading skills as well as increasing their confidence in reading. Once you've completed the Step 1 and Step 2 books (I would advise proceeding level by level), the Step 3 books are not as daunting as they might first appear. In "Eat My Dust!", children are introduced to Henry Ford and learn about his contributions. The illustrations enhance the story and add a fun element which will appeal to young children.

I can't recommend these books highly enough - they are great for building reading skills, and also educational. This book is a great introduction to history, and I also came up with a series of short comprehension questions based on the story in this book so as to hone my daughter's comprehension skills (e.g. "What sort of vehicle did Henry Ford drive?", "What event did Henry Ford participate in?", etc. ). These books are not only great intermediate readers but might also inculcate in children a great love of history.

My six-year-old asked about how cars were invented, and we purchased this "easy reader" as an introduction. My six-year-old and four-year-old sons like the story. At the conclusion of the (abbreviated and simplified) account of Henry Ford and the Model T, there is an historic photo of Henry Ford which is pretty neat.

I bought this book for my son at the beginning of first grade because we were looking for early chapter books with some substance. We love this book because it makes history accessible in a fun and engaging format.

My seven year old son really enjoyed this book. It was the perfect reading level. He had fun and learned some things too.

This is such a fascinating book! I sure learned a lot while reading it to a child. It's obviously the story of Henry Food, written in a comic style book. Very seriously funny in parts, but the way it is presented, kids never forget how he actually successfully invented the car for everyone to afford. Great actual photos of the first car race of Henry too. Great, great book, highly recommend!

Paper version maybe ok, but cannot recommend the Kindle version without any sample giving any indication that the graphics from the paper version have made it to the kindle.