Wendys Winter Walk: P, B, M, W Sounds (Phonological and Articulation Childrens Books) by Cass Kim

Wendys Winter Walk: P, B, M, W Sounds (Phonological and Articulation Childrens Books) Reviews

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  Laura Verburg

  What an adorable winter story! Kids and parents alike will be delighted by everything Wendy sees as she goes for a walk on a snowy day, as well as the beautiful illustrations that accompany the text. The story is engaging for young children, and stuffed full of chances to hear and practice the early developing speech sounds: p, b, m, and w. As a Speech-Language Pathologist specializing in early intervention, I feel this book would be a wonderful way for young children to work on speech sounds at home, and the tips for parents are great too!
  *I received an ARC in exchange for my honest review.
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  L.T.

  I bought this book after seeing the author post online about how it was written with speech in mind. My youngest child has a speech issue and with masks being a major part of his younger years, it's become more complicated to offer him the opportunity to work out the sounds and improve his verbal skills.
  
  Enter 'Wendy's Winter Walk.'
  
  One, it's absolutely adorable. Cute is an understatement. The book features soft pictures of Wendy with her wild red hair as she and her mother go for a winter day's walk. Totes adorbs.
  
  Two, the back part of the book includes Helpful Tips for Parents. Over the two pages, adults can read techniques of how they can help their children work their mouths to focus on the words as children mimic the adult readers or even as they attempt to read the book themselves. These last two pages also include website links for more videos and online resources to aid adults in assisting their children with strengthening their P, B, M, and W sounds.
  
  I love this book so much that I'm donating one to my child's classroom as well as looking forward to purchasing the next in the series. I highly recommend 'Wendy's Winter Walk.'
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  Karen Reeder

  This is an excellent book for children learning to read, who need speech sound support, and for those who just enjoy a fun interactive story!
  From the perspective of an educator Wendy’s Winter Walk is a great speech oriented/captivating story. It teaches the child to produce the sound w/out creating frustration. The story gives the child opportunities to repeat the sounds, tells them how to practice the sound, even telling them how to form their lips. It presents an excellent mix of sounds. When I shared the story with my speech pathologist friend she was really excited about it because so many books are just overly repetitive of the focus sounds and she loved that this book gives appropriate opportunities to practice the sounds w/out boring the child.
  From the perspective of a parent, I loved that my child had fun with the book! He especially enjoyed trying to whistle. Both my son and I also loved the artwork! We both hope for more stories in the series.
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  Diedra Drake

  Wonderful book for learning sounds! Sweet story, that goes through some a snow time exploration outdoors and really goes out of its way to include the 4 sounds being focused on. For example, here's a line that includes multiple P, B, M, and W uses: "'Bye!' We say to my puppy, Pepper. Pepper wags his tail and waits in his warm, blue, bed."
  
  The whole book is structured in this way, and really tries to tell a story that is both entertaining for the kids, and educational at the same time. The only thing I could possibly add to something like this would be a faint, colored, underline to the letters emphasized to remind parents that they should enunciate those sounds more clearly.
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  Billy Buttons

  This book was entered in The Wishing Shelf Book Awards. This is what our readers thought:
  Title: Wendy’s Winter Walk
  Author: Cass Kim, ill. by Kawena VK
  
  Star Rating: 5 Stars
  Number of Readers: 17
  Stats
  Editing: 10/10
  Writing Style: 9/10
  Content: 10/10
  Cover: 10/10
  Of the 17 readers:
  17 would read another book by this author.
  17 thought the cover was good or excellent.
  17 felt it was easy to follow.
  17 would recommend this book to another reader to try.
  Of all the readers, 5 felt the author’s strongest skill was ‘plotting a story’.
  Of all the readers, 8 felt the author’s strongest skill was ‘subject knowledge’.
  Of all the readers, 4 felt the author’s strongest skill was ‘writing style’.
  16 felt the pacing was good or excellent.
  17 thought the author understood the readership and what they wanted.
  
  Readers’ Comments
  “This is a superb book for the classroom. Not only is it an excellent story and wonderful illustrated, it's also a superb resource for helping children to understand sounds and how to make them.” Primary school teacher, age 47
  “My mum and I also like to go for winter walks around our village. It’s fun what you'll find and what you'll see. I also love the snow and I think it's good the story was set in winter.” Boy reader, age 8 - with a little help from his mum
  “Such a delightful story. The author’s storytelling skills are excellent: clearly written, fun, accessible language. Also, the Helpful Tips in terms of ‘speech’ were actually very helpful. I would happily have this book in my classroom or in the school library.” Primary school teacher, age 41
  “I like this book a lot. I liked how they were outdoors in the snow and exploring where they lived. It looks like fun.” Girl, aged 7
  
  To Sum It Up:
  ‘Not only is this a delightful story and engaging for youngsters, it's also excellent for developing speech. A FINALIST and highly recommended!’ The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
  
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  Janice Ellis

  I think this book is good for teaching kids basic sounds of letters and words to assist them with reading and identification. It would be good if the author identifies the targeted age group. The storylines and illustrations are great and should be very interesting for kids of a younger age group. I think the book could have been longer, unless the target audience is for special needs children, who may find reading more challenging. The approach is good and can be applied more broadly and extensively.
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  Michael Beyer

  This is an excellent book for beginning readers and for parents to read with young children who are still learning to recognize letters and match them with their sounds. The illustrations are colorful and beautifully done. The book employs the same phonics-teaching methods that have proved so successful on Sesame Street and other educational reading-based TV shows. I highly recommend this book for parents with preschoolers.
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  Jim Hardison

  Fun and Helpful
  
  This book is a playful and engaging way to get little kids practicing speech sounds they may have trouble with. My oldest had some difficulty with her W-sounds and this would have been great for her. The illustrations are soft and charming and the story is gentle and fun.
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  Shawna Baca

  Charming
  
  What a wonderful book. I bought it as a gift because the illustrations are so charming and it is so great to go on Wendy’s walk with her mother and see it through her eyes all the simple things in life that are so rewarding. Excellent book to read with a child. The snow illustrations are magical, too!
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  Daniel DeMille

  A lovely book with very cute, cheerful illustrations. A gentle, relaxing children’s story that flows like poetry, while delivering on its promise of providing the reader with robust speech sound practice. My son also enjoyed the visual puzzles included in the story, and the interesting nature facts shared in the book.
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  Tanya Kennedy

  Fabulous sweet book
  
  Lovely illustrations and cute text to go with it. Good vocal exercises and small counting as well. Even a parent suggestion guide in the back. Sure to get your young one engaged.
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  Alex Richwagen

  Good book and illustrations
  
  Nicely put together book, my daughter liked it and the illustrations. The words to get them speaking certain words was clever.