GINN BASIC READERS ON CHERRY STREET Author:Odille Ousley and David H. Russell and others Revised Edition. Children's School Reader. Part of a series of readers but the book can be used on its own. The Vocabulary List on pg. 222 does note that this book is a "First Reader" and "follows 'The Little White House'[which is] the Primer of the Ginn Basic Reading Series." "On Cherry Street" "introduces 171 new words" and that the "155 words... more » previously taught in the series are repeated and maintained in the book." Examples of new words in this book are: school, bus, wonderful, groceries, feather, pancake, bicycle, squirrel, goat, tomorrow, garden. Table of Contents is called "Stories in This Book" with chapters entitled: We Go To School(7 stories), Fun at Home (5 stories), Mr. Mac's Store (5 stories), Story Time (6 stories of which 4 are folk tales), On Cherry Street (6 stories), Happy Days at the Farm (6 stories), Just for Fun (8 stories and 2 poems). The Vocabulary List has the page numbers for new words introduced. There is an Acknowledgments page indicating the stories' sources. Color illustrations on almost every page. Illustrators: George Garland, Bob Candy, Art Saaf, Phoebe Erickson, and Catherine Scholz. Reading Level: second half of first grade to beginning third grade (depends on the child's reading ability).« less