As our heroine heads out to play, our heroine's mother tells our heroine, "Words hurt!" And our heroine wonders what her dear, sweet mother meant. And so, our heroine decides to ask everyone she knows what they think about what her mother said, to see if they can tell her what her mother meant and why she said what she said. And she begins (as she usually does) by asking her friend, the elephant! Think about what you would tell our heroine as you practice reading skills, and as you build your reading word vocabulary through word recognition, word repetition and rhyme, all of which you will find on the pages this fun, 'learn to read' book written and illustrated by award winning author, attorney and former teacher, Penelope Dyan. But most of all, have fun as you learn; because learning must be (and should always be) fun, or a kid like you just won't love to learn! And when you are all finished traveling through this book, you can go to Bellissimavideo's YouTube channel; and you can watch the free, fun music video that goes with this book! And then you can have even more learning fun!