Good Game

A lacrosse game is about to start, with the four-legged animals on one side and the winged animals on the other. Mouse and Squirrel badly want to play, but Bear and Deer refuse to let such small creatures on their team. The birds are happy to take them in, but then the question is how two animals without wings can play alongside flyers. The winged team comes up with a clever plan.

This Native American tale explains the origin of the bat and the flying squirrel. It is told within a frame in which a grandfather shares the story with a young boy.

Good Game belongs to the I Like to Read series, which is built around guided reading levels A through G based on Fountas and Pinnell standards, and this book has been officially leveled with the F&P Text Level Gradient system. It is meant for kindergarteners and first graders to read on their own. The series uses original illustrations by established author-illustrators that support the simple text and invite rereading with parents, teachers or alone.