Award-winning "Budding Reader Book Set 1: Cat and Rat" is designed to be a child’s very first reader. With only 11 words (and, at, can, cat, look, rat, see, stop, that, the, you) introduced over the course of 10 eBooks, Cat and Rat employs an innovative format and research-based best practices to ease children into reading. Arguably the easiest learn-to-read books on the market, Budding Reader eBooks were developed in consultation with Cecilia Minden, Ph.D., the former Director of Literacy and Language at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Melissa Ferrell, a former Development Associate at Walt Disney Television. The series was illustrated by Doug Oglesby, winner of one Emmy, five Emmy nominations, and three international awards from the Broadcast Designers Association.