Description: Colorful Illustrations support decodable text, guiding beginning readers to identify, recognize, and use the /au/ sound. Featuring high-frequency words, this authentic fictional narrative also gives emerging readers the opportunity to read with purpose and for meaning while reinforcing basic phonemic sounds. Readers will follow Paul as he makes his mom's sauce recipe for the first time. This fiction phonics title is paired with the nonfiction phonics title Fun in Autumn: Practicing the AU Sound.