Answer the growing call to improve reading in the early grades with this welcome companion to Bowker's classic A to Zoo. The more than 2,500 first readers profiled all feature lively interaction of text and illustration and present themes of interest to young children. Informative listings offer a brief plot synopsis, critical evaluation, comments about the illustrations, and title, author, and illustrator information, as well as details on publishers, series, subjects, and more. A special list of 200 outstanding first readers helps simplify collection development.
When the residents of Lochdubh begin receiving poison pen letters, no one takes them seriously. But Constable Hamish Macbeth fears them, and his instincts prove correct when the postmistress is found hanging from a rope with a vicious poison pen letter at her feet.
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