Og Meets Mog!: Ready-to-Read Pre-Level 1

by Ame Dyckman, Elio (Illustrator)

Overview

Og the monster attempts a daring rescue in this adorable, rhyming Pre-Level 1 Ready-to-Read by award-winning and New York Times bestselling author Ame Dyckman!

Someone blinks!
Og makes a yelp.
But Og is nice.
Og wants to help!

Og is a thoughtful monster who stumbles upon a curious creature trapped in a block of ice! Will Og come up with the perfect plan to break the ice, and possibly make a new friend?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781665941440
Publisher:	Simon Spotlight
Publication date:	01/02/2024
Series:	Monster Og
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)
Age Range:	3 - 5 Years

About the Author

Ame Dyckman is the author of many books for children, including How Dinosaurs Went Extinct: A Safety Guide, the New York Times bestselling Wolfie the Bunny, and the Bat, Cat & Rat series, the second book of which—Vacation—won the Theodor Seuss Geisel Award. Ame lives with her family in central New Jersey. Visit her at AmeDyckman.com.

Elio is a family-friendly cartoonist and illustrator who loves bold lines, shapes, and colors. His work starts with pencil and paper and ends in Photoshop. He is also a lecturer at Columbia College, Chicago, in the design department and illustration program, where he teaches courses in concept art, cartooning, and children’s book illustration, along with other illustration classes. He lives in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife, Annie, and their daughter, Genevieve.

Editorial Reviews

...This story from the inimitable Dyckman is original and fun, as well as perfect for new readers. A series starter that will have readers asking for more Og, please!

February 2024 - School Library Journal

For its simplicity, the text has a gentle rhyme scheme and pleasing sense of rhythm that reward the work of decoding. Elio’s cartoon-style illustrations are bright, cheerful, expressive, and clearly composed, creating a path for readers who may be struggling with early phonics skills to follow the story.

March/April 2024 - The Horn Book Magazine

2023-12-06
Thinking turns out to be better than hitting.

Og, unthreatening scion of a family of cartoonish, Popsicle-colored, Play-Doh-y monsters, all horned, with projecting teeth but goofy grins, is out helpfully collecting firewood when he spots a large block of ice with a blue lump inside it. Only two eyes are visible, and when one blinks, Og yelps. After futilely bashing the ice with sticks for a while, Og decides to use his brain instead of brute force. Lacking tools, he karate-chops two trees to make rollers, finds rope, slides the block onto the logs, and pulls it home. The tiny fire in his yard melts the huge ice block, and quite surprisingly something orange and furry begins to emerge. Somehow, the ice was hiding an enormous marmalade cat (in British nursery slang, a “mog”). Og is nice, Mog is nice, and together, Og and Mog are “twice as nice.” Besides being big enough for Og to ride, as a bonus, helpful Mog chases off the mice that have been plaguing Og and his family. Rollicking rhymed verses, almost-monosyllabic vocabulary, and super-large type will attract beginning readers, who might also enjoy the wacky, harmless mini-monsters.

Very easy words, a small hero, and enough action to keep the pages turning. (Early reader. 4-8)

Kirkus Reviews

Rollicking rhymed verses, almost-monosyllabic vocabulary, and super-large type will attract beginning readers, who might also enjoy the wacky, harmless mini-monsters. Very easy words, a small hero, and enough action to keep the pages turning.

January 2024 - Kirkus Reviews