Adventurous Meg and Greg spend a busy, fun-filled summer helping animals in their neighborhood. The first book in a well-designed phonics series crafted to engage learning or reluctant readers with a shared reading experience between the learner and an experienced reader. An instructional offering made humorous and entertaining makes reading together time well spent. ( )

Our elementary students check this book out quite often. The book is good for readers that are reluctant. Not too much writing and great illustrations.

Neat concept. Each spread has a page for a grown-up or more confident reader to read and a page for a beginning reader to read.

Note: I received a digital review copy of this book from ALA Virtual 2020. ( )

Short story chapters about Meg and Greg, two friends. Their phonetic adventures have them finding a duck in a sock, a fish in a dish, a sloth and a ranch. The book is broken into 4 short stories consisting of 5 or 6 chapters, 6 pages long each. Each short story focuses on a different phonetic concept - ck, sh, ch, or th. The layout of the pages alternates between text on one side and comic on the alternate. The illustrations are black and white line drawing and pleasing to the eye.

It's a cute book that emphasizes learning concepts. I love the little touches it adds like labeling things on pages and phonetic puzzles between stories to emphasize the concept learned. The authors also added a guide on how to use the book as an educational tool as well as before each short story. ( )

A lot of phonics based books are written for a very young age range. What do you do if you have an older child who needs to work on these skills? This book is a great resource for older students who are learning or practicing phonics skills. The lay out is part chapter book, part graphic novel which makes it more appealing to older students, I’d recommend it for ages 6-11 depending on the student’s individual needs. There are multiple books in the series, this book (book 1) focuses on the letter consonant combinations: ck, sh, ch, and th.