Frankie and CJ Take A Hike

Frankie and CJ Take A Hike is a JumpStart storybook that was first released as a printable book in 2005. It is book 3 of the "Reading Readiness Readers" series. It is mainly intended to teach long vowel sounds and words ending with a silent E.

A physical copy of the book was included with the JumpStart Ready to Learn System bundle, released in 2007.

Characters

 * Frankie
 * CJ
 * Mice

Summary
Frankie and CJ ride their bikes to a lake. After playing in the lake for a bit, they encounter some mice. The mice take a ride on top of a kite, but then the kite gets stuck in a tree near a beehive. After helping the mice, Frankie and CJ share a cake with the mice, and then go home.

At the end of the book, there is a page with a list of words with long I, U, A and O vowel sounds. Then there is a coloring page that shows Frankie riding a bike and CJ flying a kite, and asks the reader to fill in the blank in the sentence below with the word that describes what they are doing.