With strong picture support and predictable story lines, these books make a great addition to any beginning reading program. Students discover that numbers are everywhere, it would be hard to have animals come to school, and best friends donA t always like the same things. Stories are tied to content areas and feature skills such as counting, rhyming, recognizing adjectives, punctuation, and capitalization of names. Each book includes either related activities or listings of content-area concepts, sight words, phonics, vocabulary words, and related learning skills.