DRIPPY KITTY SHORTS

Discover a delicious new way to read, learn, and grow with DK!

Drippy Kitty Shorts™ Book 1: I Love to Cook with Mom is a fun-filled bonus adventure extending the beloved original Drippy Kitty Elementary Series™. These shorter stories give young readers even more opportunities to enjoy DK's world while developing reading, language, math, and everyday life skills.

In this colorful family adventure, DK is excited to make a homemade rainbow pizza with Mom. Together, they gather the ingredients, measure the flour, knead the dough, choose colorful toppings, and count everything they need. But when one enthusiastic kitchen move sends flour flying, DK discovers that cooking does not always go according to plan!

With Mom's patient guidance, DK learns how to slow down, follow directions, clean up a mistake, and keep trying. As their pizza takes shape, an ordinary afternoon in the kitchen becomes a joyful lesson about patience, responsibility, creativity, and spending meaningful time together.

Children will laugh at DK's messy kitchen moment while discovering that mistakes do not have to ruin an experience. A mistake can be corrected, a problem can be solved, and learning can still be fun.

The story naturally introduces five useful vocabulary words-ingredients, measure, knead, toppings, and patient-through actions and illustrations children can understand. Young readers also explore nouns, verbs, adjectives, opposites, colors, rhyming words, sequencing, counting, and simple addition without feeling as though they are completing a traditional lesson.

Children can practice:

• Following directions in the correct order
• Counting and combining groups
• Recognizing colors and opposites
• Identifying nouns, verbs, and adjectives
• Learning new words through context
• Cleaning up and trying again after a mistake
• Helping safely in the kitchen with an adult

Created for children ages 4-8, I Love to Cook with Mom is ideal for picture-supported independent reading, family story time, classroom learning, and expressive read-aloud enjoyment. Its short sentences, playful sounds, gentle humor, colorful illustrations, and learning activities help emerging readers build confidence and comprehension.

Drippy Kitty Shorts™ brings the heart and positive messages of the original Drippy Kitty Elementary Series™ into shorter, focused adventures based on situations children recognize from home and school. Every story is designed to help children read, laugh, think, and grow while having fun.

DK's rainbow pizza may not begin perfectly-but with patience, teamwork, and a little laughter, it becomes something wonderful.

Read. Laugh. Learn. Grow with DK!