I Read Signs (Reading Rainbow Books)

My son got this book as a birthday gift and can't put it down. He's four with a speech disorder but something about this simple concept has helped him read! To get new words out of him is a treat in itself. Now he's yelling "stop sign" when we are out driving. Just today he looked at the picture for "Railroad Crossing" and not only said it but then said "Train Choo Choo". Bringing the concept of what that sign means with the actual object. We were thrilled. What a fantastic idea. So simple but it clearly means so much to kids.

My son (3-yr old) is really into vehicles and signs. He loves to learn a sign, and then asks us to "ask me about the sign". Then he gets to name it back to us. This book is perfect for that. It has a lot of the common signs, but then some new ones that he has loved to learn.

We highly recommend an Tana Hoban book! and this one is no exception!

Reading practice does not begin in kindergarten or first grade. Reading environmental print is a child's first exposure to letters, words, and pictures coming together to explain a concept and Hoban does it brilliantly.

Her photographs allow children to decipher the world around them via 30 photographs of everyday signs.

I applaud Hoban for creating wonderful books for children to be introduced to the concept of reading.

We got this book for my first child when she was about a year and a half old, and it became an instant favorite. She loved being read the signs in this book over and over.

Astonishingly, she read her first word at about two years old thanks to this book; when we were on a trip in a different state, in a restaurant she'd never seen, she pointed to a sign on the wall and read out "Exit only!" She was reading us "Exit" signs everywhere for months after that, though it was of course a long time before she started reading other words or being able to read phonetically.

Now she's a teenager headed for college, I have a second child about a year and a half old, and I'm buying this book for him...

I found this book was an excellent pre-reading excercise for my preschooler. She just loves to see and recognize the signs as we are driving. This also makes it a great book to bring along for car trips of any length. I am buying a copy for her friend who loves all things car & truck. I know this will make a great gift for boys as well as girls ages 3+.