My Favorite First Book

By Brad M. Herren

Each new page starts a new subject with an entirely different animal and a mostly true story line. I have also included many colorful illustrations that give the reader a preconditioned (subliminal) idea of the story line, thus helping the reader to grasp and assimilate within their attention span and hopefully retain the information they are be

• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Mar 30, 2021
• ISBN: 9781648953651

Brad M. Herren

The author loves to write during his spare time, watching his children growing of age and also now his grandchildren. He surmises that their reading material should match their short attention span, along with all the other distractions biding for their time. With this insight, he has endeavored to meet their need to read with animal stories that work within their limited allotted time to reading by keeping their interest with the story confined to one page from start to finish, compressing as much information as needed to satisfy their understanding of the subject they are reading about.

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Contents

Tooth Fairy

The Very Red Fox

Crow

A Day of Riding on Burros

Raised Southern

The Faceless Stalker

Cottonmouth Snake

Reading was our best learning medium as children in the 1940s, not so in today’s digital age. Reading is because of an assignment from a teacher or the latest reading fad, like Harry Potter or Crimson Rush .

Watching my children growing, and also now my grandchildren, I surmise that their reading material should match their short attention span, along with all the other distractions biding for their time.

With this insight, I have endeavored to meet their need to read with animal stories that work within their limited allotted time for reading by keeping their interest with the story confined to one page from start to finish, compressing as much information as needed to satisfy their understanding of the subject they are reading about.

Each new page starts a new subject with an entirely different animal and a mostly true story line.

I have also included many colorful illustrations that give the reader a preconditioned (subliminal) idea of the story line, thus helping the reader to grasp and assimilate within their attention span and hopefully retain the information they are being exposed to.

Tooth Fairy

Once there was a young boy named Luke. That day, he had lost his first tooth, but he said that he didn’t want to put it under his pillow. His parents asked him why.

It is just a tooth, he replied.

They asked him why. Did he not know the tooth fairy would be visiting tonight?

I am a seven-year-old boy, he muttered as he jerked the cover over his head.

Thus upset, Luke tossed and turned into the night, which found him awake when the FLUTTERING noise caused him to abruptly set up in bed.

He slid out on to the cool floor with his bare feet and eased across toward the sound by the window, and with one eye, he gingerly peeped out into the brightly moonlit night.

The bright moonlight reflected off the transparent wings, causing them to sparkle.

He fumbled for the tooth as he passed by the dresser on his way to putting the tooth under the pillow.

Morning found the night reluctantly giving way to the sunlight spilling onto Luke’s bed and finding it empty as he was charging down the stairwell, waving a large bill in the air.

To this day, no one understands why forty-year-old Luke still believes in the tooth fairy.