Save the Cake!

Discover Bright Owl Books! This super simple beginning readers series, created by best-selling Step into Reading author and illustrator Molly Coxe, features vowel sounds – basic building blocks of reading – and only around 100 words in each book. With a note to parents and teachers at the beginning and story starters at the end, these books give kids the perfect start on educational success.

Kate and Nate baked a cake. Can they keep it safe from Snake? This fun photographic easy-to-read story features the long “a” vowel sound."While the photographs of Coxe’s tableaux are the star, there are plenty of fun “long a” words for early readers to play with and learn. Coxe is very clever with both words, using a nice variety, and her art. So much fun! ESSENTIAL."—Kiss the Book

"This series is just so doggone good... there’s nothing to compare.” —Betsy Bird, Fuse #8, School Library JournalBefore writing and illustrating kid-favorite easy-to-reads like Hot Dog, multi-talented Molly Coxe taught preschool and high school English. Her books have sold over two million copies. She lives in San Francisco.