Huff and Puff Have too Much Stuff! (I Can Read Books: My First) (I Can Read Level 1) (My First I Can Read Book)

by Tish Rabe

Huff the engine and Puff the caboose can move a train together, but when they cannot move the train because they have too much stuff, they discover that friendship is all they need.

"Huff pulls the train. Puff pushes the train. Together they can haul a lot. Big stuff, small stuff, they've got it all! But what happens when the best friends realize that they're stuck with too much stuff? Farmer Fluff has just the solution! Simple rhyme and easy-to-read verse will help beginning readers and train lovers build their vocabulary and strengthen reading skills."--Book jacket.

• ISBN10: 0062305069
• ISBN13: 9780062305060
• Publish Date: 9 September 2014 (first published 26 December 2012)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
• Imprint: HarperCollins
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 24
• Language: English
• URL: http://harpercollins.com.au/9780062305060

Reviews

[cherryblossommj]

The illustrations are vibrant and beautiful here with a reminiscent feel to The Little Engine that Could. Huff and Puff are two little engines (front and back) that just have too much stuff and need to find a good place and person to give what they so not need.

When my budding reader saw this book, she snatched it up. For years I've been reviewing early readers and she glances at them and tells herself a story from the pictures and I read them aloud. However this was different.

She picked this one up and read it to me. AppleBlossom is five years old. We've been doing phonics for just barely one year. She knew most of the words with some sounding out and some she had to ask for help, but she definitely read most of the words herself. There was repetition enough with some new words that she started to recognize them as well as out it the decoding skills. Some earliest readers are just too full of sight words, but this one was the right amount of phonics with sight words.

The hardest bits for us were working on /ch/, /sh/, and /gh/. But it was great exposure!

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