Reading Raven – Level 1: Fart Alarm!

Content

At Sunday breakfast, Ari shows off his latest trick: with his hand in his armpit, he simulates farting noises. His family is unimpressed. When his mom makes everyone go outside to the playground, Ari encounters his friend Jon and teaches him the trick. Soon the two are competing to see who can produce the better farts. And then Ari suddenly becomes Mom's knight in shining armor with his fart trick …

About the Series

The Reading Raven series is designed to encourage beginning readers by providing fun and exciting stories at each ability level, from their first efforts at reading alone to more advanced chapter books Each Reading Raven book includes reading riddles, puzzles to solve using information in the story. This is a fun way to check how well children understand what they read. The first level features short texts with lots of pictures that provide clues to the story's meaning. These books are written in extra-large print. When children are ready for longer stories, the second level of Reading Raven offers short chapter books, also in large print with illustrations that help readers follow the text. The third level is for readers who are becoming proficient, with longer chapters and increasingly complex stories, but still with accompanying pictures and highly readable print.

The Author

Martin Klein was born in Lübeck in 1962. He first studied sports but soon changed directions and studied landscape design. In 1988 he won a stipendium from the "Cultural Senate" of Berlin, and another in 1996. His first children's book appeared in 1990. Today Martin Klein is a freelance author, landscaper and trainer of a handball team in Kreuzberg, Berlin. His special interest in trees, books and balls is incorporated in his everyday life.

The Illustrator

Shining eyes and a smile on the face - that's what Tessa Rath wants to cause with her work. She gets inspired on walks through the forest, at the ocean and also during the times she spends with her family. She was born in Duisburg in 1978 and has loved drawing since her childhood. After school she studied art therapy and she works as a freelance illustrator today. She wouldn't want to change her life - "I have everything" is the answer to her dream of happiness.