About the Book: Syd Hoff’s beloved Danny and the Dinosaur are here to help kids learn to read with phonics! This set of twelve simple and fun Danny and the Dinosaur storybooks is an excellent choice to share with your beginning reader. It’s a fun way to learn to read and as a supplement for activity books for children ages three to six. Enter into the world of reading with My First I Can Read! Reviewed by a phonics expert, these twelve short full-color books feature repeated examples of short and long vowel sounds and common sight words. Each of the simple stories in this box set is designed to teach kids how to master reading with Syd Hoff’s popular and award-winning classic series, Danny and the Dinosaur. Phonics teaches children the relationship between letters and the sounds they make. A child who has mastered these relationships has an excellent foundation for learning to read and spell. According to the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, a child who has learned phonics has a method to recognize familiar words and decode unfamiliar ones.