Books with author Carl Sommer

Our Amazing World Series, Advanced, familiarizes children with fascinating facts that foster a love for learning. In this attention-grabbing book, individualized fun facts about each of the unique land animals captivate their interest. Advanced early readers recognize many of the words under each picture and are curious to master the new ones. The clear photos and narrative stimulate wonderful conversations with children. This is a reference book children will use for years to come.

This engaging book from Our Amazing World Series, Advanced, takes children on an underwater journey through exquisite close-up photographs and illustrations. The world’s oceans are home to amazing animals outfitted in gorgeous colors while others are almost transparent. This book is a marvelous introduction to nonfiction for advanced early readers. Children will boost their reading confidence by recognizing many of the words and learning to combine familiar words into compound ones such as newborn, seaweed, and lionfish.

Speckles the spider and Crumbs the cricket think Katy the caterpillar is much too ugly to be their friend. But Annie the ant doesn't agree, and she and Katy become best friends. As Katy the caterpillar begins her strange transformation into a beautiful butterfly, her friend Annie is shocked and amazed. In this inspiring and beautifully illustrated book, Speckles and Crumbs finally learn the true meaning of beauty and friendship-and caterpillars. Grades K-4.