DK Readers" help a child learn to read and encourage a life-long love of reading. Who do you want to be today? Put it on, take it off...dressing up is lots of fun. Let's pretend and play at being a pirate, a fairy or an astronaut! "DK Readers" are part of a five-level highly pictorial reading scheme, with lively illustrations and engaging stories to encourage reading. Pre-Level 1 have simple sentences, limited vocabulary, word repetition, picture word strips and large type - read them together with children who are just beginning to learn and with early or reluctant readers. There are over 70 titles in the series.