The Adventures of Sissy Dog

(#1 in this children book series) Spend the day with Sissy dog as she finds her new home with a girl on a fish farm. We'll meet her new family and the other farm animals. "Michelle & Ethan" are siblings that live in the backwoods of South Georgia on their family's fish farm. Sissy is the leader of the pack with "Slam" by her side, a beagle dog on patrol. "Whiskers" is a sophisticated barn cat that has Michelle wrapped around his paw.

This book has a fun rhyme on every page, which is catchy for young children and enables memory through phonics. Phonics is a method of teaching people to read by correlating sounds with letters or groups of letters in an alphabetic writing system. Teaching phonics and rhyming to a child develops their phonological awareness skills - which play an important part of becoming a good reader.