Bees, the first reader in the series, can be downloaded for free. Your 5 year old can read Bees within 15 minutes whether he or she knows the alphabet or not. This is a novel phonetic method which uses phonograms (a family of words) along with large letters and cartoon characters to help the child read. Many new words can be made by using digraphs and trigraphs. Your child will be reading through 1st grade material by the end of the series.