"Cleary does a masterful job of explaining such potentially dry topics as 'long vowel sounds with consonant digraphs' and 'inflectional endings' by using comic, incongruous situations to get his point across. . . In his introduction, Cleary states that: 'The bridge to literacy is one of the most important we will ever cross. It is my hope that the "Sounds Like Reading" series will help young reade
