The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books (Beginner Books(R))

Hardcover – Picture Book, August 7, 2012
288
English
0307975878
9780307975874
06 Aug
Calling all P. D. Eastman fans! What could be a better than six Beginner Books written and/or illustrated by P. D.—or son Peter—Eastman? Six of them for less than the price of two! At only $15.99, The Big Purple Book of Beginner Books is an incredible value and includes the full, unabridged text and illustrations for A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer, I'll Teach My Dog 100 Words by Michael Frith, Fred and Ted Go Camping by Peter Eastman, Snow by P. D. Eastman and Roy McKie, and Flap Your Wings and Big Dog . . . Little Dog by P. D. Eastman, all bound together in one sturdy, hardcover omnibus. Perfect for birthdays and holidays, this is a classic, affordable gift the whole family can enjoy together.

Reviews (171)

Love it!

Great way to get multiple kid books into one! Love it!

This is fun!

Got this through a subscription box. It’s nice to have several stories in one book instead of a ton of tiny books. Easy to read for my first grader so I might recommend for someone younger. Still a lot of fun!

Great Reading for my first grader!

My first grade daughter loves this book to read! We have ordered all of the color beginner book series! It makes a great book to bring along on a trip or have around at the house. I tell my daughter that she needs to read a story everyday on her spring break before she can watch tv… The stories were perfect for her level. I read some of the harder ones first and then she was able to read the rest on her own after that. 10ish dollars for 6 great stories with a hard cover is great!

Love

My daughter is learning to read, and loves this, she thinks she’s reading a huge chapter book, so it has made her much more confident in reading. She reads it front to back now. Ordering her another! Great quality too

It's great to have if you are running out of space

The pictures are smaller and fortunately as this is a compact book are the children did enjoy the books their favorites is of course Fred and Ted. We loved the books, however we wished the book was a bit more bigger since the pictures are compacted

Worth it

Great book for kids

A favorite collection

This has 6 different stories, two of which feature the dogs Fred and Ted, which are favorites with my littles. The Fish Out of Water is a classic story of a boy who learns about unintended consequences of over feeding a pet fish, and the Flap Your Wings has a toddler-sized mystery. The other two stories aren’t as popular with my girls, but overall this collection keeps us busy reading for quite a while.

A Great Little Book Collection!

Purchased as bedtime stories for my 1.5 and 3 year old daughters. They like the all you can read buffet style story books. We have several of the “BIG” Seuss books and have liked them all so far. My favorite story is “Flap Your Wings” about a bird family that accidentally raises an alligator. My 3 year old is particularly fond of the Fred and Ted stories. Cute book collection that I believe was only about $10 which I fantastic for everything you get. I recommend this for toddlers especially if they are animal lovers.

Love it

My son loves these

Great

Great collection of stories

Love it!

Great way to get multiple kid books into one! Love it!

This is fun!

Got this through a subscription box. It’s nice to have several stories in one book instead of a ton of tiny books. Easy to read for my first grader so I might recommend for someone younger. Still a lot of fun!

Great Reading for my first grader!

My first grade daughter loves this book to read! We have ordered all of the color beginner book series! It makes a great book to bring along on a trip or have around at the house. I tell my daughter that she needs to read a story everyday on her spring break before she can watch tv… The stories were perfect for her level. I read some of the harder ones first and then she was able to read the rest on her own after that. 10ish dollars for 6 great stories with a hard cover is great!

Love

My daughter is learning to read, and loves this, she thinks she’s reading a huge chapter book, so it has made her much more confident in reading. She reads it front to back now. Ordering her another! Great quality too

It's great to have if you are running out of space

The pictures are smaller and fortunately as this is a compact book are the children did enjoy the books their favorites is of course Fred and Ted. We loved the books, however we wished the book was a bit more bigger since the pictures are compacted

Worth it

Great book for kids

A favorite collection

This has 6 different stories, two of which feature the dogs Fred and Ted, which are favorites with my littles. The Fish Out of Water is a classic story of a boy who learns about unintended consequences of over feeding a pet fish, and the Flap Your Wings has a toddler-sized mystery. The other two stories aren’t as popular with my girls, but overall this collection keeps us busy reading for quite a while.

A Great Little Book Collection!

Purchased as bedtime stories for my 1.5 and 3 year old daughters. They like the all you can read buffet style story books. We have several of the “BIG” Seuss books and have liked them all so far. My favorite story is “Flap Your Wings” about a bird family that accidentally raises an alligator. My 3 year old is particularly fond of the Fred and Ted stories. Cute book collection that I believe was only about $10 which I fantastic for everything you get. I recommend this for toddlers especially if they are animal lovers.

Love it

My son loves these

Great

Great collection of stories

Nice book for reading time

Another fun Suess book

Great book!

My 5 year old love these books. The stories in this book are well written and my daughter really enjoys them

Good.

My kids like to pick a story for bedtime and it’s great that the different stories are the cover so they can chose from there and I don’t have to clean up so many books from them deciding.

Love Dr. Suess

I've always liked Dr. SUESS. There's always a lesson to learn in each story.

For my students

My students loved this set in class. I love the fact that it made them want to read more.

Love the Dr Suess books

Love this book. Purchased a few of them and my grandchildren live them. They are the exact books merged into one book.

Great collection for early readers

My 2, 4, and 6 year olds all love these books! The fun pictures are fun to look at, and my early readers love telling the stories themselves. Love having this collection all in one place for bedtime stories!

Love the collection

Look for the Red Blue Yellow Aqua Orange Green Books as well

Tried and true stories for beginning readers.

Great book and perfect for my beginning reader. I remember some of these stories from my own childhood.

Great addition to our collection

A wonderful addition to our book collection. My son loves the Snow story and the Fish one most of all. I hadn’t read any of these as a child, so I enjoyed reading them for the first time too. Well bound book, made to last.

Great selection of books

My toddler loves these books and loves even more the BIG Book of Beginner Books series as it creates a loophole in the "One more book" bedtime limit of nightly reads. She isn't literate yet so she points at the pictures on the cover to choose the book she would like to read. It's a great selection of books. While the appear long, the reads go by fast (perfect for bedtime) and are entertaining enough for parents to read over and over again. We love it but just be aware that as a gift you might be torturing a parent that is now exposed to six books rather than one

Great for beginner readers

I purchased this book after buying the Bog Blue Book of Beginner Books from Walmart. These stories are excellent for beginner readers because they have the right size font, easy sentences and themes (love the rhymes) and the books use the most frequent sight words which builds the child's recognition of them quickly with repeated reading. The price of the Big Purple Book was also $4-$5 less than the price I paid for the Big Blue Book. I would highly recommend these. The stories in this book are DRA level 16 & 18/Guided Reading Level I & J.

Kool beans

My sister little girl will like this book

Important

My Autistic Son really really wanted this for his birthday. He really has a thing for books. This book was special to him. Thank you for making this possible. Fast ship great price, perfect service!

Book for toddler

Kid really likes her books.

Kids love it

Kids love it

Great value

Cute. These have so many books in 1. Great books

Excellent beginner books!

I love the rhyming and short stories that Suess books are famous for, and this is no exception! Wonderful little stories that make us smile. Easy for big brother to read to little sister :)

I like Dr Suess

Multiple of the smaller books in one wanted to have for the grandkids

Great book for the money

Great book Great for early reading fun for parents too lol

Highly recommend

Perfect for our Kindergarteners learning to read. She looooove it!

Great books get the whole set!

Great books. We have all the books in the set Amazon was cheaper then every store I found these in

Great book for the price

They said this book was in good condition, it looks brand new. Very pleased with this purchase, price was cheaper than the brand new ones. Plus you get several books in one.

Great price

Kids love it

Awesome beginner books for lasting childhood memories

Bought this book along with two others of the same name (different "color"). I have a 5 yr old daughter and a 6 year old son that are learning to read and practicing with the reading that they know. They love these books. I would definitely recommend to anyone with young children that are wanting some beginner "first books". I actually remember some of the books included in these sets from when I was very young. So apparently these books can have a very long lasting fond memory for your children. My daughter just keeps wanting to read them over and over and each time she gets better and better.

Great quality. Recommend!

Dr Seuse is enjoying for kids. Love these books.

Great book!

Love these books! So great for travel with littles that are old enough to look through/read paper-page books since there are multiple stories in one book. Seem pretty sturdy as well.

This learn-to-read series of books is wonderful!

As a grandmother of a 5-year-old kindergartner, I highly recommend these very colorfully-illustrated and rhyming to help read, easily sounded out worded books with lovely children's stories. I cannot recommend these books enough, will be buying more, have two for now. Lovely books for children and helpful!!!

I love these books individually and I suppose I should have ...

I love these books individually and I suppose I should have read the add more carefully. I was under the impression that all 6 books came in some type of case or together in a large cardboard type of cover, but it is one story book with 6 stories in it. Non the less theses are great classic stories to have. I again assumed that since it said beginner book that they were the hard cardboard type, like for toddlers but it comes with normal paper pages which is still great. Overall, you cant go wrong for the price and if this is what you are looking for (based on my coments) then this is a great buy...

Makes reading fun instead of a chore for children

Reading is an essential skill and these books are fun for kids to listen to and to then learn to read themselves. They don't find reading a chore with the fun stories

great!

Good quality of prints and great selection of stories!

Big confidence boosters and such a good price to have 6 books in 1

Our family absolutely loves all of the "My Big Book of Beginner Books." We were able to purchase all of them except for one. They really helped my kids as they started to learn to read. Big confidence boosters and such a good price to have 6 books in 1. Even my oldest child (age 9) still re-reads from time to time.

Love it

6 year old loves reading dr Seuss. Calls this her chapter book. Now can take 6 books in one book places much either than carrying 6 books

Great for my child

Perfect for my child, nice hardcover - good quality and my son loves to read it....over and over and over! Love it!

Most loved book in classroom!

I work with adults with special needs and love when I read any thing to them but absolutely love anything by Dr Seuss! I will definitely try to get a few more!

Great

Great

One of our favorites

A favorite! We read this in preparation for first grade and it was great. Very easy to read and entertaining, my 6 year old loved all the stories inside. I would highly recommend it for summer reading or just for any day.

good collection

2.5 year old loves all of these stories. A+

Perfect for my kindergartener.

Perfect for a 5 year old. She enjoyed reading it. Love the price too. Those books bought separately would have cost much much more!

Love this Book!

My daughter received this book as a gift for her 3rd Birthday. It's been 3 months and she still wants me to read from it every night. She loves choosing among the stories and most of them are a perfect bedtime length. I wasn't sure about the format but she loves it. This book has received more use than any other gift she received. Love P.D. Eastman, too! His books are the best for beginning readers.

Great buy

My kids and I love these stories and the best part is, they are all together in one book so when I know we're going out to eat or to a doctor's office and there could be a long wait, we just bring this one book and the kids are entertained for the entire time. And really, who's better than Dr. Seuss?

Great Dr. Seuss book collection

My son loves the set of the Big Beginner Books by Dr Seuss. We read them for bedtime and now he "reads" them to me from his memory. So cute! I definitely recommend these books. Easy to read, understand and my 3 year loves them.

5 books in one saves space

I liked the fact that my 2nd grd Son was able to read these short fun stories with a couple of challenging words.

The Purple one is just as great as the others

My 4 year old son loves all the big beginner books. We have been collecting them since he was 3. The Purple one is just as great as the others. Just the right length for bedtime stories.

Nice beginner book

This was a birthday gift for a grandson in first grade. His mom and I have both been pleased with it and he has enjoyed reading it.

Winner!

This is a great book for kids just learning to read. I bought a few of these books for my son to keep him reading over the summer. We like the stories and he is able keep his reading skills sharp for 1st grade.

The stories are cute and easy to read for a beginner reader.

I got this book for my 6 year old daughter to read. She loved it and all the stories in it. The stories are cute and easy to read for a beginner reader.

For kids to read bedtime stories to parents!

My five year old daughter loves it. The stories have words that she knows plus some that she doesn’t. It is a great collection for beginner readers.

Good buy

Better than buying all the books

Great

Kids love these books, great to learn how to read on

Thank you for your support in her literacy development at an amazing price.

My first grader is sharpening her reading skills. She has grown so much through repeated (daily) readings from this and others in the series (i.e., the blue and red ones). Thank you for your support in her literacy development at an amazing price.

Great!

My son has the other books (and pre-ordered the new one) and he loves reading them to himself and to his brother, so I had to add these! Great books and lots of stories in one book. You just can't go wrong with Dr. Seuss!

Great beginner rewader books

My grandson is enjoying the stories and loves picking out the words.

Great!

Great!

Good learning/teaching tool

Little ones love these series . Definitely helps them to learn to read in a fun way.

My 7-year-old loves being able to read these stories all ...

My 7-year-old loves being able to read these stories all by herself, it's really helped boost her confidence with reading!

Perfect For Beginners Readers!

My 5 year old granddaughter loves this book! A great place to start with new readers.

Very fun book!

My 5 years old daughter loves this book. She has other same kind of books (Orange, Yellow, Blue, Red). Lots of stories and very colorful.

Five Stars

My grand daughters love these books. I have purchased the whole series and am happy with them.

Great

Great

Fabulous stories for young readers

Wonderful books for children. We now have almost all of them, and my grandson has enjoyed each one and we're passing them down to my granddaughter who is just learning to read.

Perfect starter book

Great book for beginning readers. Stories are not too long, not too short. My daughter loves it! Best price online

Great series of books

My son is Five (5) and loves reading these books. I now have him read to me! So we are both enjoying the series. I'm purchasing more of them.

These beginner books are amazing for anyone who want to learn to read

These beginner books are amazing for anyone who want to learn to read. It give them motivation that they can read. They want to continue and read more.

Classic collection

Cool to have so many classic books in one binding. My three-year-old loves to read all the stories!

My son loves this book

My 5 year old son started reading this year in his kindergarten class and he loves these Big beginner books. He really likes the stories in this one. I will probably end of buying them all. There's something about a child reading a "real" book that is simply endearing.

Five Stars

An excellent collection for your child or grandchild .

Great books all in 1

These were some of my favorite books growing up and I had to have them to share with our next generations! Looking forward to reading to them!

This is my 4 year old son's favorite book. He especially loves Fish Out of Water ...

This is my 4 year old son's favorite book. He especially loves Fish Out of Water and Big Dog Little Dog. He can read it again and again.

Five Stars

My kid and I love these books! We will have the entire collection soon.

You will love this book for your children

I bought this book for my 2 year old and she loves it. She continually brings it to me to be read. The book was delivered within 5 days with no problems. I love how multiple stories were placed in one large book.

Colors are great

Easy reading

Wonderful!

I am so excited to find all these stories anthologized. I have the individual ones but these are much easier to transport and store on a shelf.

I would recommend this!

My son has several of these books and loves them! I would recommend this!!

Awesome addition to the Big Book series. Timeless and will be re-read often. A must have!

The Big Book series are my kids favorites. They still read them, even though they are way past beginner. We all enjoy re-reading anything Seuss/Eastman.

Wonderful storybook

This is a good book to keep on your shelf for the few times a year you need to entertain a couple of kids. These books are good; but for reading a loud.

Love this book

Highly recommend - It is one book with several books inside, great for beginners and who doesn't love Dr. Seuss

Five Stars

My kids love these books.

Great Stories

Bought this for my little boy and he loves Fred and Ted .. I enjoy reading these stories every chance I get. Great for bedtime or just a quiet time with your little one.

nice to have several books in one cover

classics in one big book. great condition. great stories

Five Stars

Great collection of books for beginner readers. Even my older children read the stories again and again!

Cute stories!

Cute book of books.

Five Stars

Kids love hearing the stories

A fast and easy read for my 7 month old

A fast and easy read for my 7 month old. No matter how many times I read it to her, she loves this book.

Great book

So cute, my son loves this

My 6 year old boy loves it!

Great for the 1st grader just starting to read. He is extremely excited to learn more about the story that he is reading vs me reading it to him.

Puprle Book

Very good stories - loved all of them. When I introduced it to the 1st grader, he was a bit overwhelmed. However, if the size of the book doesn't scare your child, it's a great way to have the collection.

Perfect

My daughter is hooked on Dr.Seuss, so when I found this book i was excited. It's a nice hard bound boom with all the classic Dr.Seuss type stories. Daughter was thrilled,

Love the book

Love the book

Bang, buck, etc.

This whole series gets points for (a) being fun; (b) being compact--you can take just one with you when you go on a trip, and still entertain your kid for days.

I was very pleased with this purchase

I was very pleased with this purchase. My grandson will enjoy hours of being read to and being entertained by the characters in the storyline.

Five Stars

Nice variety of stories, makes reading time fun.

Good stories. TERRIBLE FONT.

My burgeoning reader likes the stories but the font is terrible— the swirling serifs bump into each other (like an “f” and “i” run into each ish t and almost look like a lowercase “h” with a dot). I wish it was just a simple, non-serifed font.

perfect short stories to keep their attention

My 3yo loves these stories, perfect short stories to keep their attention.

A++

Love this...six books in one!

My grandkids love this

I would suggest this to anyone with children or grandchildren. The stories are funny and fun to read. The price is worth it.

Great quality

Good binding great way to collect dr suess books. All in one much nicer when you have limited space in the house

Good book

Excellent reader. Grandchildren love it, and so do I.

Five Stars

Love it

Nice one

Bought this for my 7 year old son. He enjoyed this like all others in this series. Good early school read.

Several stories to go traveling with

This book os perfect for my little one who likes to take all her favorite books with us. Now she just has to bring one! It is GREAT.

Five Stars

My 3 year old loves the books.

Highly recomended

This book has some very intriguing children stores.

Five Stars

Great collection for beginner readers! Our 5 year old loves these

Excellent condition

Fun reading for beginner

Five Stars

Bought 2....one for me and one for my grandchildren to read to me via skype

Great!

My children love these books, and call the order of whose reading them. Regardless, I'm just glad they are excited about reading.

Five Stars

Great book!

She loved it.

Given as a baby gift. She loved it.

Five Stars

Cant go wrong with anything Dr. Seuss.

Sharmila

Great book for beginners. My daughter is five years old and she loves it and is able to read on her own!!!

Five Stars

My 5 year old LOVES these books!

great begginer books!

i loved these books when i was young so i decided to buy and read these stories to my son. =)

Five Stars

As described.

Great purchase! Grandkids love reading the stories

Great purchase! Grandkids love reading the stories.

Five Stars

thank you.

Five Stars

My kid love this books

Good

My son loves this book

Five Stars

Perfect! Thanks!

Four Stars

It is good for kids to read.

Four Stars

Great Reading granddaughter loves it.

Five Stars

great

Five Stars

Good.

Very Disappointed

I am a teacher and I purchased the following 5 books - The Big Purple / Green / Red / Blue Book of Beginner Books and My Big Book of Beginner Books About Me. I believed that they were BIG books!! The size should have been posted as fat not big, because I do have other books of this series with different titles and they are BIG!

Product was water damaged with stains on the pages.

Book had watermarks and stains on certain pages.

Great bargain, but he ink used to print this ...

Great bargain, but he ink used to print this book smells toxic. Couldn't give it to my toddler to read. Very disappointed.

Great selection of books

Great selection of books. A fish out of water has always been one of my son's favorites. Snow is probably the easiest of the books to start with. I did not like some of the sets, but this one was worth it. I also bough the green set (in fact i would have kids read the green set first).

What a great collection

My with had these books as a kid and when she found this collection she knew that she need to get it for our children. So we got it this past Christmas. Our oldest loves to read he loved getting this book.he enjoyed having us read it to him. I never read them before it was a treat to read it.

Great books!

My 2.5 year old is a little bookworm, and he cant get enough of these books, so I purchased this one to add to his collection. We went through it in three nights and now we've started over! The stories are just awesome as are the illustrations. He loves pointing out what the characters on each page are doing! A must have for any child!

Enjoyable read

Fun book to read with my 3.5 year old. She isn't quite to the point of reading it on her own but it seems like it'll be a good book to start teaching her with.

Five Stars

Never wrong with Dr.Seuss

Great Book

I bought this book for my 4 year old son. He loves to read it to me and to himself during quiet time. Teach my dog 100 words it the only harder beek for early readers. We also have the big blue book which we love. I look foward to buying more Big "Color" books as my children learn to read.

Big Hit!

My 22month old son got this book for Christmas and requests at least one of the stories daily, usually more. The language used is simple, he is able to read many of the words. He loves to help read the stories. Cute stories, great illustrations.

Fun Stories

A little more advanced than some of the Seuss book collections.

Love it

Dr. Seuss is always a great book for any classroom. To have all these books in one book makes reading them extremely easy. Love it!

classics

What needs to be said? Classic stories kids love.

Great addition to pour books collection

Great buy

Looks good!

Looks good, Undamaged. The kids loved it.

Kids love

Fantastic

Great book

Great for beginning readers

Dr. Seuss Collection

What could be better than a Dr. Seuss book? A collection of stories in one book! Old favorites and a couple we don't remember will make a great gift for one of our grandchildren. Encouraging reading is always a good thing! Having a book to call your own makes it even better.

Very interesting.

My granddaughter loved it.

Nice book

We love this book

Grest gift

Great value

our favourite!

a nice book .. but MRP and price mentioned has discrepancy

Good for early readers

Great book for early readers to start on.

The stories were pretty simple and really not that engaging

The stories were pretty simple and really not that engaging. We also have the Red Book and the stories were much better.

Awesome Collection of books

Awesome Collection of books, MUCH thicker than I was expecting, it really IS the BIG purple book! I am looking forward to reading it with my six year old.

which means I love it too

My 5 year-old loves it.... which means I love it too.

Five Stars

great book

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