Charming illustrations and carefully leveled text engage young students as they learn to read with Ned and his friends.

"This tale of a singing puffin and all of his quacking, wailing, tweeting bird friends will have emergent readers giggling until the final page. Keep kids engaged after the story with a reading comprehension quiz"--

When it is time to go home after a day of play, Tortoise challenges the other animals to a race.