Discover Bright Owl Books! This super simple beginning readers series, created by best-selling Step into Reading author and illustrator Molly Coxe, features vowel sounds - basic building blocks of reading - and only around 100 words in each book. With a note to parents and teachers at the beginning and story starters at the end, these books give kids the perfect start on educational success. Russ and Gus are bored . . . until they take a tub for a ride. This fun photographic easy-to-read story features the short "u" vowel sound.