Books in Red Rocket Readers, Early Level 2 series

On Graces birthday she got a big surprise. Her mother and father gave her a card with a string tied onto it. They told her to follow the string to find her birthday present. Can you guess where she went? What do you think she found at the end of the string?

How do you move along? Do you move in different ways? Can you creep and bounce? Can you skip and roll? Animals can move in lots of ways, too.

There are many kinds of dances. People in different countries have their own special ways of dancing. They all have music to dance to. Some people like to sing as they dance. How do you like to dance?

Are you good at counting? Lots of things have wheels to make them move. Some things have only one wheel and some things have lots of wheels. Can you count the wheels?

Do you know some animals that have spots? Which animals have stripes? Where do they live? What colors are they?

How does a tiny tadpole change into a frog? All a tadpole can do is swim in the water like a fish. But when it is a frog it can hop and jump on the land . It can dive and swim and float, too. It looks different at every stage as it changes.

Have you ever seen a hot-air balloon? Hot-air balloons can go up very high. Max Monkey went for a ride in a hot-air balloon. It went up very high and something funny happened.

Can you go fast? Do you run fast? How can you have a fast ride? What are some things that can go fast? Which animals can go fast?

When you paint a picture, you can choose the best paint to use. What would you use to paint an elephant? What would you paint with pink or purple?

People all over the world live in different kinds of homes. They need houses to suit the weather where they live. What makes your home warm in winter? How do you keep your home cool in summer? What are some of the things used to build houses?

The children are looking at these houses. They want to visit their Grandad. They are trying to guess which one is his home.

Sometimes we are glad to have a friend to help us with things we are doing. A friend can help us to play a game or to make something. Friends can fix things, too, or help us when something is hard to do by ourselves.