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Book Review of You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together

You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together
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This is a fantastic and fun read when you have a child who is learning to read, and is perhaps afraid that if they show you how well they can read, you won't read to them anymore. The book starts out with a fun perspective: "Two readers reading make a game, It's twice as nice when there are two." One person reads the text on the left printed in blue, the other person reads the text on the right in dark red. I think that the spacing as well as the colored print help early readers learn to track appropriately. The stories are humorous and fun to read, with enough rhyme to keep things interesting but not so much that you want to upchuck at the cutsy-ness. I discovered that I had two copies of this book as i was straightening my son's bookshelves-- otherwise I'd never give it away.