Uses a popular children's character to help work through a story by replacing certain words (mostly nouns) with a recognizable picture with the word under it, to help children "read". This will work great if reading together with an adult, can give the child the confidence to be able to recognize simple words. the illustrations, which are taken from the TV show, are narrated perfectly with the text, which I think allows a child to confidently try sounding out other words and recognizing them in context. The story emphasizes how to be a good host.