See Bip Grow!: Ready-to-Read Ready-to-Go!

by David Milgrim, David Milgrim (Illustrator)

Overview

Zip and Bip are back in the fourth book in the Adventures of Zip Ready-to-Go! series from author-illustrator David Milgrim, two-time Theodor Seuss Geisel Honoree!

See Zip zap. See Bip grow tall. Now Zip and Bip can play some ball! But as usual, things don’t go according to plan for the hapless magician, Zip. See Bip grow so big that he flies away like a giant balloon! What will Zip (and Bip) do?

Perfect for kids at the beginning of their reading journeys, See Bip Grow! was written for children who have learned the alphabet and are ready to start reading! And what better way to get kids excited than with a hilarious, out-of-this world story with words they can actually read?

Each Ready-to-Go! Ready-to-Read includes a note to parents explaining what their child can expect, a guide at the beginning for readers to become familiar with the words they will encounter in the story, and reading comprehension questions at the end. Each Ready-to-Go! story contains about 100 words and features sight words, rhyming words, and repetition to help children reinforce their new reading skills. In this book, readers will learn 29 sight words and 16 words from 5 word families. So come on and get reading with Zip!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534489271
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	08/31/2021
Series:	The Adventures of Zip
Pages:	32
Sales rank:	493,912
Product dimensions:	5.80(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.10(d)
Lexile:	AD180L (what's this?)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

David Milgrim is the author and illustrator of more than thirty-five books, including the New York Times bestseller Goodnight iPad and the Adventures of Otto series. His books Go, Otto, Go! and See Pip Flap were each named a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife. Visit him at DavidMilgrim.com.

David Milgrim is the author and illustrator of more than thirty-five books, including the New York Times bestseller Goodnight iPad and the Adventures of Otto series. His books Go, Otto, Go! and See Pip Flap were each named a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife. Visit him at DavidMilgrim.com.

Editorial Reviews

★ 07/01/2021

K-Gr 2—Space alien Zip's back with smaller, diaper-wearing alien Bip for a new installment of Milgrim's "Adventures of Zip" series. Ball in hand, Zip zaps Bip to "grow tall" so they can "play some ball." As Zip bows proudly—"I am the best! / Far and away!"—Bip continues growing. And growing. And growing. Soon, Bip grows out of frame, big enough to blow away and fly "up, up, up / into the sky." Zip tries to zap Bip back, but the zaps are "much too low" to have any effect. Bip makes it all the way into space—smiling and laughing at every step of the journey. Bip discovers their own zap, shrinks back to small, and falls down toward Zip. Now who's the best? Rhyming text expertly repeats sight words and word families, along with a few "bonus words." With at most six lines per double page spread and around 60 unique words, the text should be accessible to emerging readers just starting to read independently. The book introduces each word in a list before the story so readers can practice before reading. Milgrim's expressive, bold-outlined characters pop off the pages, which have plenty of white space and few background details. The playful sense of scale and dynamic layouts heighten the humor. Discussion questions at the end of book not seen. VERDICT Infectious hilarity and clever repetition make this high-appeal title a standout. Milgrim's latest is extraterrestrial fun that feels like classic cartoon comedy.—Alec Chunn, Eugene P.L., OR

School Library Journal

2021-06-16
A fun and bouncy adventure for the earliest readers.

Join Bip and Zip, two pea-green, antennaed extraterrestrial cartoon friends (or siblings), for another in the Adventures of Zip series. Bip, wearing a diaper, is the younger and smaller of the two. A zap from Zip causes Bip to begin to grow. At first, Bip grows to be just as large as Zip, and the two play ball. Zip wins and smugly celebrates the triumph. But a delighted Bip continues to grow, ballooning until Bip is several times larger than Zip—and also somehow becoming light enough to blow away, rising into the stratosphere. Zip is helpless to save Bip. “Zip’s zaps are much too low!” Eventually, Bip effectuates a zap without Zip, becomes small again, and falls back toward Zip. But what luck! When Bip falls, the still-smiling being lands on a ball and is lucky enough to bounce up, up, up again and complete an amazing twisting triple somersault before safely landing. In the end as Bip takes a bow, Zip is forced to declare Bip the “best by far!” Prefacing this stand-alone story are boxes of word families, sight words, and bonus words to practice or review before reading. Most illustrations are compositionally simple, positioning Zip and Bip against plain white backgrounds, and most pages contain just one or two short rhyming sentences. (This book was reviewed digitally.)

Zip and Bip have the touch to zap fun into early reading. (Graphic early reader. 4-6)

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