Dust jacket notes about the Dolch Basic Vocabulary Books: "The Basic Vocabulary Books have been written to fill the need for easy to read, interesting stories that encourage independent reading onbeginner level. Children are delighted with the wealth of new and fascinating true stories and tales of folklore. The books are easy to read for the stories are written with the very first words children learn by sight, the Dolch 220 Basic Sight Words and 95 Commonest Nouns. The repetition of these easy sight words builds a sound reading vocabulary and children gain confidence in their reading ability...."
