Robert the Rose Horse (I Can Read it All By Myself Beginner Books) [Hardcover]

Joan Heilbroner (Author), P.D. Eastman (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: 1962

Robert has terrible trouble with roses. Every time he smells one he sneezes. And every time he sneezes children all over America laugh.

But making children laugh is only part of the purpose of this book by Joan Heilbroner. The main purpose, of course, is the same purpose that is behind every Beginner Book... to give beginning readers words that they CAN read, in books that they WANT to read all by themselves. Mrs. Heilbroner's enchanting story is written with only 183 different words... used in ways that help a child recognize and remember them. The gay illustrations by P.D. Eastman will fascinate the young reader and keep him eagerly turning pages.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 64 pages
• Publisher: Random House, New York (1962)
• Language: English
• ASIN: B002JYALV8
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.7 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,299,590 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Learn to Read while Giggling, February 22, 2010

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This review is from: Robert the Rose Horse (I Can Read it All By Myself Beginner Books) (Hardcover)

A horse with a good work ethic, and a terrible sneeze!

My 4 year old son finds this book hilarious (and I can't help but twinge a smile at it too)...it is one of his 3 favorites that he requests over and over. But what puts this book on my must recommend to other people list, is that it is a PERFECT book for kids learning to read. (And entertaining books that really have all right ingredients for emerging readers are harder to find than you might think.) My son is learning to read, in good part due to this book. The text repeats, but not in a boring way... more like the refrains that a good oral story teller uses to draw the audience in and build up..."I know this part, it goes like this...NOW what's going to happen?" (Even when they do know what happens next, somehow the build up and "punch line" is still just as satisfying the 704th time...)

If your kid is one who would find the idea of a sneeze that sends cats and dogs flying into the air hilarious, and is not quite reading yet or just learning to read, don't miss this funny, sweet, charmingly old-fashioned book.