In this Little Blossom Stories book, Tulip the kitten goes missing, and her family searches high and low to find her. Uses decodable text, a repetition of sight words, and vowel sounds to increase readability. Focuses on the phonics skill of decoding open and closed syllables. Original illustrations help guide readers through the story. Author/Illustrator biography Original artwork Phonetics Teaching guides The Little Blossom Stories series uses curriculum based fiction to get children comfortable with reading. Each book in this series uses a combination of sight words and short-vowel words in repetition to build recognition and confidence. Original illustrations help guide readers through the text. Text and format is created by Cecilia Minden, PhD, a literacy consultant and former director of the Language and Literacy program at Harvard Graduate School of Education

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