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Little Ned Stories: A Chapter-Picture Book for Kids

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The stories are based in West Virginia. There are three stories and our children personally favored, "THE OCEAN VACATION" and "THE BOY WHO HATED HALLOWEEN."

If you want to introduce chapter books to young readers this is an excellent choice. It will not frustrate the early reader. The writing style is fun has good flow and the illustrations are sure to aid in holding the interest of any child.

As a mother of advanced twin 8 year old readers, a son and a daughter, both children eased through this title. They also truly enjoyed it. The book is reader friendly not only in story line and fun sketches but the print style and size are perfect for the 4-8 age group.

An adult will enjoy sharing these stories with any child. There is a classic feel and a sense of days gone by that the adult reader will appreciate.

Overall an excellent choice for a first chapter book pick!

My son is 5 1/2 and is beginning to have a desire to read "chapter" books but often finds them difficult to actually read. The "Little Ned" stories have been perfect for him! He reads them again and again, and really identifies with this little boy. The illustrations help him understand the story as he reads. I would encourage parents (and teachers) of early readers to purchase this book to encourage more advanced reading by allowing young children to have success while reading "chapter" books.

Little Ned Stories: Book One is the first of a four volume series of "chapter-picture" books designed, written and illustrated for young readers ages 4 to 8, in grades K-3. This easy-reader series is highly recommended for parents and teachers seeking to wean children away from picture books to the longer chapter books they are expected to have mastered by the third grade. Little Ned Stories: Book One features three separate stories centered on the realistic adventures of a "six going on seven" year old boy set in West Virginia in the early 1950s. One story has a central message with a life lesson to be learned (The Ocean Vacation), the other two stories are just for fun (No Soap and The Boy Who Hated Halloween). The 128 pages comprising Little Ned Stories: Book One are enhanced 45 b/w illustrations.

The stories are based in West Virginia. There are three stories and our children personally favored, "THE OCEAN VACATION" and "THE BOY WHO HATED HALLOWEEN."

If you want to introduce chapter books to young readers this is an excellent choice. It will not frustrate the early reader. The writing style is fun has good flow and the illustrations are sure to aid in holding the interest of any child.

As a mother of advanced twin 8 year old readers, a son and a daughter, both children eased through this title. They also truly enjoyed it. The book is reader friendly not only in story line and fun sketches but the print style and size are perfect for the 4-8 age group.

An adult will enjoy sharing these stories with any child. There is a classic feel and a sense of days gone by that the adult reader will appreciate.

Overall an excellent choice for a first chapter book pick!

This chapter book will fill a real niche for young readers who are anxious to read a grown-up type book with chapters. The book reads like an adult book because it's not restricted with a graded vocabulary. Many young children speak with sophistication and yearn for books that are written with "real" language in mind. The three stories in this book ,No Soap, The Boy Who Hated Halloween, and The Ocean Vacation are about the author as a boy growing up in West Virginia. Each chapter is an adventure with exciting and unexpected endings. The chapter about halloween allows for two possible endings and if the child and parent want to become even more creative they can develop additional endings.Children will learn early with this book that there can be great variation in chapter books for No Soap with its play on language has thirteen chapters while The Ocean Vacation has only three. Yet the excitement is maintained in each story. This is a book that can be enjoyed silently or read aloud. The book is magnificently illustrated by Joan C. Waites. She worked with the author directly.Her illustrations required a great deal of research on West Virginia and its people.She learned a great deal about how they dressed and the tools used in the occupations of that time. There is a future Little Ned book in the planning stage. I look forward to it.

Children 4-8 will enjoy these simple stories and parents may appreciate their soothing nostalgic quality.

This book introduces us to Little Ned and a few of his adventures. It shows us what little Ned feels about different people and different situations and how those adventures turn out in the end.

The illustrations are very good. They are very detailed and occupies a whole page. They are in black and white and I don't know about the kids out there, but I was very tempted to color them all with my crayons:-)

It is written in a clear, simple manner that is easy to read as well as listen to. I read it out loud to my husband and he didn't move from his seat until I was done. Actually, it only took me 20 minutes to read it to him.

I thought some parts of it were very funny and most of the time I felt the way Ned felt would be the way a real 6 year-old would feel and think. I was especially amused by the dual ending of the second story. The children can pick which of the two endings they like best.

I think this fast and easy to read book will be a great addition to your child's library, or maybe the beginning of one.

As reviewed by Marjan Glavac, editor of The Busy Educator's Newsletter.

Any teacher, librarian or parent looking for a first chapter book for their children, should take a look at Edward Faine's Little Ned Stories- Book One. Richly illustrated with 45 black and white illustrations and three separate stories, this book will appeal to any child between the ages of 4-8.

My six year old son sat down with me and enthusiastically read and laughed and studied each illustration as he turned each page of the three stories: "No Soap"; "The Boy Who Hated Halloween"; and "The Ocean Vacation." The stories are very easy to read, have universal appeal and would make a great addition to any young child's library.

The three stories in LITTLE NED STORIES are written by a man who clearly remembers what it was like to be a young boy. Edward Allan Faine reaches back into the fifties and tells three nostalgic tales about a six (almost seven) year old boy, Little Ned, growing up in Belle, West Virginia. Faine introduces us to Little Ned in a warm and folksy way. We get to borrow the eyes, ears and impressions of Little Ned and through them see the world Little Ned sees as he greets each new day. The illustrations by Joan C. Waites are delightful. The illustrator either has a fine memory or did a lot of research about the fifties, about what little boys wore, swimsuits of the era, trucks, bathtubs and so on. I recommend this book for any child, of any gender, at any age who is teaching himself or herself to read. I also recommend it to any grandparent or great grandparent reading to young children because the font is large and bold. I am one grandmother, in particular, who appreciates that. Carolyn Stearns, author of Where Did All The Water Go? (Tidewater Press