You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Fairy Tales to Read Together

Reading for two parts. Easy vocabulary and familiar stories. Even older children liked these. Check out others by same author.

Take-offs of well-known fairy tales are written in simple verse for two readers to share aloud. Funny, cartoonish illustrations add to the light tone.

This is a really cute book wich is part of a series. This particular book allows students to read fairy tales together.

These books are fantastic. This would be a great way to get younger children reading with you, because they only read a little bit at a time and then someone else reads the next small stanza. But, my favorite is in every story the very last stanza is read together. Any child would love these books!

Hoberman rewrites classic fairy tales and nursery rhymes as smart, funny poems for pairs to read together. Great for a unit on poetry or just to get some giggles from your students.

Eight familiar fairy tales are told as very short stories, each with original twists on the classics and also providing a creative variation to the typical read aloud. A unique approach to interactive reading, the I’ll Read to You, You Read to Me series supports and guides readers to do exactly

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that. As is explained in the introduction, when the text is red and on the left, one reader reads, when the text is purple and on the right, the other reader reads, and when the text is blue and in the middle, both readers read together. Hoberman mentions in the Author’s Note, which appears at the beginning, the stories are meant for two individuals to read together, either two beginning readers or a beginning reader and an advanced reader, therefore not excluding anyone. The entertaining stories join recognizable characters together in conversation, like the Princess and the Pea and the Big Bad Wolf and one Little Pig, offering amusing exchanges between the “good guy” and the “bad guy.” Read in rhyme, the stories read with a comfortable cadence easily allowing the book to be read with as it has been intended.

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A companion to the popular You Read to Me, I'll Read to You: Very Short Stories to Read Together (Little, Brown, 2001), this book offers eight fairy tales to inspire a wonderful read-aloud experience for two voices. The color and placement of the text on the pages indicate the different parts. For

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example, "The Little Red Hen" begins with voice one, in orange type: "I'm Little Red Hen./I planted the wheat./I dug up the soil/In the dust and the heat." Then, voice two, in magenta: "And I am the Duck/And I have to admit/That I did not help her,/Not one little bit." Each tale ends with both participants sharing the refrain: "You read to me./I'll read to you." Hoberman doesn't offer full renditions of the stories, but rather uses the characters and one or two plot elements to create retellings that will entice children and encourage them to keep reading. The selections all have happy endings; in "Jack and the Beanstalk," the ogre agrees to share some of his treasure with the boy, and Little Red Riding Hood takes the Big Bad Wolf out to lunch where they read together while waiting for their food. The verses are rarely forced or faltering, and the two voices join seamlessly together to create a truly delightful reading ensemble. Emberley's humorous illustrations feature expressive characters drawn in pen, watercolor, and pastel, and are liberally scattered throughout the text.

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These are fun and quick reads. The compilation of common fairytales with columns for each reader to read a part separately or together can help struggling readers and is a fun way for anyone to engage with text.