The Boston Globe declared Hills’s work “charming, funny, simple, and surprising” and dubbed him “a master of the light comic touch.” Tad lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife, two children, and his real-life dog, Rocket, who has not yet learned to read. "Youngsters will find this addition to Hills’s cast of adorable animal characters simply irresistible.Tad Hills is the #1 New York Times bestselling author and illustrator of the Rocket and Duck & amp Goose series, including the New York Times bestselling picture books How Rocket Learned to Read Rocket Writes a Story R Is for Rocket Duck & amp Goose Duck, Duck, Goose Duck & amp Goose Go to the Beach and Duck & amp Goose, Honk! Quack! Boo! He also created various board books in these series, including Rocket’s Mighty Words Duck & amp Goose Find a Pumpkin the ALA-ALSC Notable Children’s Book What’s Up, Duck?: A Book of Opposites Duck & amp Goose: Here Comes the Easter Bunny! and several Step Into Reading titles, including Drop It, Rocket! and Rocket’s 100th Day of School. "With characters as memorable as those in Hills’s Duck and Goose series, this good-natured story shows readers how Rocket, a spotted puppy, becomes a beginning reader, thanks to a little yellow bird." Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. "Hills’s gentle, sweet tale is a paean to the joy of reading and the teachers that inspire it." Rocket Writes a Story - Ebook written by Tad Hills. It may persuade tentative kindergarteners that school is worth a try teachers and librarians will love it." His pictures flow with soft color and movement. Rocket loves books and he wants to make his own, but he can’t think of a story. Hills tells his sprightly story as needed, not one word more or less. Rocket is lovable, the little feathered teacher adorable.
But “How Rocket Learned to Read’’ defies gravity. "A picture book all about the joys of reading could easily turn preachy and dull.
An Autumn 2010 Children’s Indie Next Pick
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