Kimberlee Gard Books

The Little i Who Lost His Dot is a whimsical children's book that tells the story of the lowercase letter "i" who comes to Alphabet School on the last day without his dot. Some of his lowercase classmates gasp, point, and stare when he arrives at school. It is only then that little "i" realizes his dot is missing. A substitute dot is offered by his friends in order to help. A gumball is offered by a lowercase "g" and a zero is zoomed over by a lowercase "z". How do you think things will turn out? Will lowercase "i" be able to find his dot?

In The Day Punctuation Came to Town children will be introduced to the Punctuation Family. Much like Kimberlee Gard's first book, The Little i Who Lost His Dot, punctuation marks are transformed into talking characters. There are four characters readers will meet: the very energetic Exclamation Point, the quite curious Question Mark, the dependable Period, and the unsure Comma. 

When the Punctuation's arrive at school all of the letters ask, "Who are you?" and "You don't look like letters." This is the day that everyone learns all about punctuation. 

The author gives each punctuation personality traits so that children can learn their significance and function. Poor Comma who has always felt lost finally sees his incredible importance in a sentence. 

What a fun and non-intimidating way to learn punctuation! I hope the author plans to write another book to introduce other punctuation marks.

Everyone remembers the game Red Rover, Red Rover. Kimberlee Gard has turned a children's game into a fun way to learn vowels in Red Rover, Red Rover, Send a Vowel Over. This book teaches children their vowels without them even knowing.

A game of Red Rover is decided upon by the consonants. The five vowels, a, e, i, o, and u, know how they stand out from the other letters. They are always intimidated by playground games. If little "i" runs too fast, he loses his dot. Little "o" rolls around quite a bit. If little "u" turns upside down, everyone thinks he is an n. Little "e" seldom says a word because he keeps quiet. Little "a" was always asked to lead the way.

In no time, the consonants realize that forming words is impossible without vowels. It is then that Y asks the vowels if they want to join. There are so many words you can make with the whole alphabet together!

There is a fun message at the end of Red Rover, Red Rover, Send a Vowel Over that children will love. Check out all of Kimberlee Gard's books.