Read along with your favorite I Can Read Book characters! I Can Read Books are the premier line of beginning readers encouraging children to learn—and love—to read. Featuring award-winning authors and illustrators, I Can Read Books offer a full spectrum of entertaining stories for every stage of a child's reading development. Now the beloved characters and adventures from this popular line of books come to life with I Can Read Book and CDs. Each package includes a best-selling beginning-reader storybook and a lively audio recording featuring: Word-for-word narration - Music and sound effects - One version with turn-the-page signals - One version of uninterrupted reading Dog be gone! In Go Away, Dog , the big old dog wants to play. Can the little boy make him go away? Dog be gone! The big old dog wants to play. Can the little boy make him go away? Joan L. Nodset was inspired to write this story nearly forty years ago after catsitting Ptolemy, a friend's lovably moody feline. Ms. Nodset is also the author of Go Away, Dog and Who Took the Farmer's Hat? and wrote Crocodile and Hen: A Bakongo Folktale under the name Joan M. Lexau. She lives in Otisville, New York. Paul Meisel has illustrated many books for children, including Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? , Energy Makes Things Happen , and What Happens to Our Trash? in the Let's-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. He lives in Newtown, Connecticut. Isabel Keating garnered a 2004 Tony ® nomination for her role as Judy Garland in The Boy From Oz . She has numerous off Broadway credits, and made her Broadway debut starring in Enchanted April . Word-for-word narration Music and sound effects One version with turn-the-page signals One version of uninterrupted reading