Chick & Chickie Play All Day!

Comics have always had a unique ability to draw young readers into a story through the drawings, and visual narrative helps kids crack the code that allows literacy to flourish. TOON Books are the first high-quality comics designed for children ages 4 and up and is the first collection ever designed to offer newly-emerging readers comics they can read themselves. Level 2 offers easy-to-read comics created specifically for emerging readers, with 1-4 panels per page, short sentences, repetition and 300-600 words. Reprint.

Claude Ponti is a prolific author, painter, and illustrator, known for his humorous explorations of the nonsense world of dreams. His first picture book, Adele’s Album, was created to amuse his young daughter; he has since authored more than sixty children’s books. On a personal note, Claude says: "I’m left-handed; I prefer cats to dogs (they don’t lick people); and I’m not a vegetarian because I can’t stand the cry of the lettuce or the carrot wrenched from the earth." He also fondly remembers climbing trees as a young boy, looking for the best spot to sit and read a book. Claude Ponti currently divides his time between the French countryside (where there are many birds, such as pheasants) and Paris (where there are pigeons).