Blue Cow Goes Out to Play

This is the book that really proved my reading skill to my parents. Meet one of my first book friends Blue Cow Goes Out to Play.

Mommy and Daddy couldn’t believe that I can already read at age 3. At first, they thought that maybe I just memorized the words in the books that we read mostly every day. So Daddy bought a new set of books to make sure that I can truly read.

Book friend profile

Author: May S.M Mah
Illustrator: Teo Kok Kong
Publisher: Rhythm Publishing
Published: 2008
ISBN: 983-187-225-8

Language: English
Format: Softcover
Dimensions: 6.7 in x 9.6 in
No. of pages: 24 pages
Age Recommendation: 4 +

The Blue Cow Goes Out to Play belongs to series 2 of Phonics-In-Reading books. It focuses on words with L-blends.

The first page of the book contains words list for pre-reading practices. The first set of words are the words that are used in the story.

Phonics-In-Reading: Blue Cow Goes Out To Play – Pre-reading practice

The story is about the Blue Cow who wanted to play outside the farm so his friends helped him to go out of the farm and into the playground. But Blue Cow was too big or fat for the swing, slide and seesaw. Blue Cow was disappointed and wanted to go back to the farm. Suddenly there were kids who asked Blue Cow to give them a slow ride around the playground. Blue Cow was happy.

Phonics-In-Reading: Blue Cow Goes Out To Play – Page 5

At the end of the story, there are some activity sheets to assess the reading comprehension of the reader.

Phonics-In-Reading: Blue Cow Goes Out To Play Worksheet

Nea’s Review

My favorite characters in the story is Red Hen and Black Goat because they care for Blue Cow.
The book is interesting, fun, easy to read and understand.
What I liked best is Blue Cow was able to have fun.

The book has nice and colorful pictures. The pages contain 2 to 4 short sentences with bigger font size so it doesn’t overwhelm the reader. The targeted phonics or word blends are also highlighted.

This book is very much recommended for beginner readers. My Phonics-In-Reading books were bought from Fully Booked and Toys R Us.

5 stars
Fantastic