Cooking with the Sneetches (Step into Reading) by Astrid Holm, Erik Doescher
Published by Random House Books for Young Readers on May 7, 2024
ISBN: 0593706242
Genres: Children's Beginning Readers, Fiction in Verse/Poetry
Format: Early Reader
Source: MSL Book Review
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Cooking with the Sneetches by Astrid Holm and illustrated by Erik Doescher, brings the reader the familiar Seuss characters, the Sneetches, at the beach with a cookout to round out their day. We follow along with the lovable characters in an easy to read format with repetitive and rhyming text whose cadence moves the story along.

The bright yellow Sneetches with their green-starred bellies and smiling faces are a friendly invitation to our youngest readers while having a great time doing all things beachy. This is a great book to help emerging readers navigate new words they can derive from the illustrations on every page. There is the clear and sparse text expected from a Step 1 reader to engage without overwhelming showing the fun and helpful nature of friends at the beach.

Reviewed by MaryAnn Lopes, Lewiston Public Schools, Lewiston