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"I found our son Andrew sitting on the step, proudly reading his first book to Ben, our collie!"
— Jane Nehring, Parent

"One look at the little hand-sized books with their simple line drawings seems to inspire confidence in children. The BOB Books certainly are among the very few truly beginning books for the young reader."

— Hannah M. Whitehead, Teacher,
The Catlin Gabel School

"My son Isaac loves BOB Books so much, he takes them to bed at night!"

— Laurel Butman, Parent

"The text is simple and sequenced. The children can actually pick it up and read."

— Wendy Johnson Russell,
Director of Notre Dame's
Montessori Teacher Traning Program



"...BOB Books offer a lighthearted, intelligently conceived introduction to reading."
— Leonard Marcus, Parenting Magazine

"Children get the mechanics of reading a book and the joy of reading a good book."

— Wendy Johnson Rossell, Montessori Life

"In each book Maslen tells a story that involves action, animals, a moral or two and the feelings little ones have but can't articulate."

— Laura Sessions Stepp, The Washington Post

"The best books parents can buy to teach children between the ages of 4 and 7 to learn to read are BOB Books."

— James R. Hepworth, The Lewiston Tribune
(Lewiston, ME)


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