At RATTHECAT.COM WE HAVE MORE FUN! While we're new to Amazon, we're not new to raising great kids or to having tons of fun while doing so. We like to say we pick up where Sesame Street left off, and let me tell you it can be messy picking up after Big Bird and Mr. Snuffleupagus.

In Block 1 of our four-block series your child will get:

• FIRST GRADE ENGLISH IN A COLORING BOOK - Whether you are homeschooling, teaching, or getting your kids ready for school, the Rat The Cat Reading Accelerator is the most fun a child can have while growing as a reader.
• OVER 200 PAGES OF FUN - This is not a short coloring book with images copied off the internet, but a complete book of all the images from our full-color books, sized and simplified for the coloring-book format. Some pages are easy, some are harder.
• FULL STORIES, NOT JUST SENTENCES - Rat and Dan have crazy adventure after crazy adventure. Rat is always getting into trouble!
• PROGRESSIVE PHONICS - We use progressive phonics, not to teach a bunch of rules, but as a sensible method for introducing new letter combinations. We start easy, and each story builds on the previous story.
• VOCABULARY, WEIRD WORDS, AND SENTENCES/DICTATION FOR EACH STORY - At the end of each story are two lesson pages with that story's work. "Weird Words" are just words that have not yet been introduced, and do not yet have to be memorized, though your child will because of their recurrence.
• ORIGINAL IMAGES TO COLOR - We don't claim to be great artists, but we do put up original, fun drawings, with recurring characters caught up in adventures.
• FREE CERTIFICATES TO DOWNLOAD - At RATTHECAT.COM you can download PDF files and print out 8" x 10" Blockhead Certificates for being able to read the entire book.
• THE BLOCKHEAD CLUB - Join the club at RATTHECAT.COM! In addition to the free stuff already available on the website, we're thinking up some good digital gifts.
• MAGIC - Rat The Cat is a great product, but it's not the magic. You are. We know that. Our goal at RATTHECAT.COM is to aid you, with fun products, in producing even more of that magic.

HERE ARE THE TEN STORIES FROM BLOCK 1 OF THE RAT THE CAT READING ACCELERATOR:

1 "Cat In A Bag" - short a, consonant-vowel-consonant - Rat and Dan are in a van, when Sam comes along and things get fun.

2 "The Tame Ape" - long a, consonant-vowel-consonant-e - Rat and Dan go to the lake and encounter Dave, a tame ape. But how tame is Dave really?

3 "The Big Pig" - short i, consonant-vowel-consonant - Jane and Ranger Tim must save the day when the tame ape goes, well... ape.

4 "Pine Lake" - long i, consonant-vowel-consonant e- Rat goes to Pine Lake, but will he be safe? Probably not.

5 "The Big Dog" - short o, consonant-vowel-consonant - Rat and Dan are on a log in a hot bog when up comes a big dog. What could go wrong?

6 "The Mole Hole" - long o, consonant-vowel-consonant e, some -old words- Rat discovers a big mole-hole with a giant mole in it! Something HAS to happen!

7 "The Mud Bug" - short u, consonant-vowel-consonant - Rat is digging holes in the mud when up comes a giant mud bug. Oh no!

8 "The Rude Mule" - long u, consonant-vowel-consonant e, yu sound - Sam takes Rat to Pine Lake to ride mules. Rat's mule is big and rude, while Sam's mule is tiny.

9 "The Ten Men" - short e, consonant-vowel-consonant - Ten men, led by Ted, demand to pet Rat The Cat.

10 "The Peep" - long e, consonant-ee-consonant - Did Rat take something home that he shouldn't have from the zoo?