In her unending quest for toast with a great deal of butter Mercy Watson discovers Leroy Ninker as he is robbing the Watsons. Leroy is a small man with a big dream. Leroy wants to be a cowboy but he is unfortunately a thief! "Yippie-i-o, everything must go!" says Leroy as he puts all of the Watsons appliances in his sack. We start by discussing why Mercy is purple on the cover - "the illustrator [Chris Van Dusen] uses color to show us that this story takes place at night." I encourage you to read and re-read these stories with your child. You can do that online through our Tumblebook site
here. Listening and reading along as the text is highlighted is excellent practice for beginning readers and it's really fun too!
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