My Favorite Dog Stories: Learning to Read Box Set

Featuring five of our most beloved I Can Read stories about dogs, this collection of favorite easy-to-read I Can Read stories is full of familiar faces and furry friends This Level One box set with handle is perfect for children learning to sound out words and sentences.

The collection includes the following five new and classic Level One I Can Read books:

• Berenstain Bears and the New Pup
• Charlie the Ranch Dog: Where's the Bacon?
• Dixie Loves School Pet Day
• Harry and the Lady Next Door
• Pinkalicious: Puptastic

Stan and Jan Berenstain were already successful cartoonists for magazines and adult humor books when they began writing children's books. The first story starring the bear family, The Big Honey Hunt, appeared in 1962. Since then, more than 370 Berenstain Bears books have been published, and more than 300 million copies have been sold. What began as an idea sparked by their young sons' love of reading has become over the years arguably the best-selling children's book series ever.

Since their inception, the Berenstain Bears stories have expanded to include picture books, beginning readers, and chapter books--even a hit TV show on PBS. Writing and illustrating the books has become a Berenstain family affair. Mike joined with his parents as a creative team in the late 1980s. The Bear family has expanded over the years as well. Sister Bear arrived in 1974, and baby Honey joined the family in 2000.

Though Stan died in 2005 and Jan in 2012, Mike continues to create the delightful Berenstain Bear adventures from his studio in Pennsylvania.

Grace Gilman is a former children's book editor. She lives in New York City.