Shhhh!!!

SHHHH!!!

Shhhh!!! for ages 0-7 years is a colorful book encouraging respect for others.

See Shhhh!!! being read below.

Skills Learned

  • Repetition
  • Rhythmic patterns
  • Phonemic awareness
  • Vocabulary enrichment
  • Child’s imagination
  • Practice with SH sound, one of the difficult phonetic digraphs

This is a wonderful book that provides speech and language learners with many opportunities to practice the often difficult to acquire “sh” sound.  With the bright pictures and rhyming text, children will love saying “Shhhh…” with Adrianna Danielle over and over again.
Jennifer Hill, M.A., CCC-SLP, Early Childhood Speech-Language Pathologist

Shhhh!!! is a delightful book for ages 0-7 years, helping children learn to read while having fun. It focus repetition of words and phrases in a rhythmic pattern that makes learning to read easy and fun. The rhyming phrases lead to phonemic awareness and vocabulary enrichment. Colorful pictures allow for the development of the child’s imagination. Concepts of large/small, big/bigger, and high/low, colors and shapes are included as additional educational experiences. Shhhh!!! can be used as a springboard for learning about the need for sleep and respect for animals, friends and family.

The unique part of Shhh!!! are the pages dedicated to the parents. They will help parents use the book in the most educational way possible. Schuepbach offers simple suggestions to parents, questions to help the child interact with the parent, and a list of skills that will help parents understand the value of reading from the day the child is born.

Lynnette Schuepbach is a self-taught artist/illustrator and author/poet with a Bachelor of Music Education degree from SIUE. Shhhh!!! is Schuepbach’s second published children’s book. She also wrote and illustrated Froggy Hollow, her poetry has been featured in several poetry anthologies, and one of her poems, “Speak to Me,” was used as the basis for a wood carving book published by Walnut Hollow of Dodgeville, Wisconsin. Schuepbach has two sons and two grandchildren and has used her personal experiences in teaching children when developing her line of children’s books. Shhhh!!! is dedicated to her first granddaughter, Adrianna Danielle Kuhl.

ISBN 0-9759613-1-4

13 ISBN 978-0-9759613-1-5 Price: $15 plus shipping