Lee, Pat and their friend Tom learn about all kinds of animals. They learn about animals we keep as pets. They learn lots of interesting things about animals on farms, and they learn about animals that live in the wild. This entertaining new series of simplified, illustrated graded readers has been designed to enable children to learn to read by themselves, needing only minimal help from parents or teachers.The Word by Word series is intended for English-speaking children learning to read as well as children learning English as a second or foreign language. This collection contains Books 9 and 10 of the series. .All the details in the books are revealed in language (words and structure) that has been rigorously selected to be as simple and understandable as possible for young readers.