Sam and the Snack Tin

A sample story for Sam · featuring Pip the cat · age 5

Reading level

Sounds out simple three-letter words

For this sample, we designed Sam as a curious, gentle kid with curly brown hair, freckles, and a striped shirt. The story's cast features Pip — Sam's playful cat — as the companion. When you create your own story, you and your child pick all of this: the kid's looks, personality, pronouns, and the cast of family, friends, and pets who show up across the books.

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Focus words

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Sam stood in the kitchen on a quiet afternoon. Up on the high shelf sat a round snack tin. It was dull red with little dots around the rim. "What is in there?" she wondered. A cat padded in behind her — Pip!

Pip's nose twitched. His ears shot straight up. He sniffed the air all the way to the high shelf. "Pip always knows when something good is nearby," Sam laughed. They both stared at the snack tin. That cat sniffed and sniffed, nose pointed right at it.

Sam dragged the wooden step stool over to the shelf. It scraped along the floor with a satisfying sound. She climbed up the first step. The cat watched from below. Almost! She stretched her fingers toward the snack tin.

Pip sniffed the cabinet below and began to paw at the door. "Pip! Come here!" Sam called. Pip blinked. Then he trotted back and pressed his warm side against the wooden step stool, steady as a little wall.

Sam lifted the lid of the snack tin. Inside — small, round, golden crackers! "Yes!" she cheered. Pip popped up on the counter edge, nose deep in the wonderful smell. Sam giggled and gently nudged him back.

She set one cracker on a small plate for herself. She set one on the floor for Pip. He sniffed it. He batted it once. Then Pip ate it right up, very happily. Sam smiled at her cat.

Sam crunched her cracker and smiled. That snack tin on the high shelf had been worth every bit of the adventure. And Pip? He licked his paw and purred — ready for the next one.

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