REX AND LILLY SCHOOLTIME

Three short, funny chapters comprise this easy-to-read book starring dinosaurs Rex and Lilly from dino-experts Brown and Brown (When Dinosaurs Die, 1996, etc.). Rex faces show-and-tell and trading lunches, and Lilly deals with a know-it-all who tries to answer for her while she is laboriously sounding out a word. Using lots of picture clues and a limited vocabulary, the Browns carry newly independent readers along to a surprise twist at the end of each chapter, painlessly expanding their reading skills in the process.