Sonia Sander

There's a fire in LEGO City. The fire-fighters are in their fire truck and on their way. With their tall ladder and the very best equipment they'll save the day!

Lego astronauts board the space shuttle and set to work exploring space.

"Puffer loves to tell tall tales. He has even been known to cry 'shark' to get himself out of a bind. But what happens when there really is a shark lurking near the coral reef?..."

The cargo train is busy loading and unloading. Move the fork lift! The big crane can lift a car onto the train! Destination: LEGO City! Emerging readers will be on the right track with this Level 1 reader.

A storybook adaptation of the 2008 movie "Nim's Island," in which Nim, an imaginative young girl living on a deserted island with her scientist father, sends an SOS to her literary adventure hero, Alex Rover, when her dad disappears at sea, not realizing the extraordinary effort it is going to take for real-life author Alexandra Rover, a sufferer of agoraphobia, to come to the rescue.

On the way to his first Halloween party, Hamtaro has a scare in the pumpkin patch.

Readers discover how airplanes get ready for takeoff.

12 previously published stories compiled from Tonka's phonics reading program.