My First I Can Read: Mittens, Where Is Max

(Paperback)

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Mittens the kitten and Max the dog show that playtime is best when shared with friends!

Mittens the kitten wants to play with his friend Max the dog. But where is Max Mittens looks for all of the places where he can usually find Max, including the doghouse and near his food bowl.

But Max is nowhere to be found, until Mittens discovers that Max has been looking for Mittens, too!

This My First I Can Read Book is perfect for shared reading with toddlers and very young children. Basic language, word repetition, and whimsical illustrations make this book just right for the emergent reader.

Reviews

PRAISE FOR Follow Me, Mittens: "A good offering for brand-new readers...delivers on all counts...just what an emerging reader needs."-- -- Kirkus Reviews

PRAISE FOR Mittens: "The beautiful physical immediacy of the new pet story will draw emergent readers. Preschoolers will enjoy the kitten's story, as they recognize how it feels to be a small creature in a giant world."-- -- ALA Booklist

Author Bio

Lola M. Schaefer is the author of several books for children, including An Island Grows; Pick, Pull, Snap! Where Once a Flower Bloomed, an NCTE Notable Children's Book in the Language Arts; and What's Up, What's Down She lives with her husband, Ted, in the mountains of north Georgia, where she occasionally observes the back end of a black bear, coyote, or gray fox.