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Nina Bricko introduces listeners to a determined young girl from the 1930s who has a Make-Do-Can-Do attitude. Veleta Mae gets to go to her first day of school, but her dress is thinner than paper, with pockets holier than Swiss cheese. She searches her family’s farm for inspiration on what to wear. With a little help from Momma and her pet chicken, Dorothy, Veleta finds the perfect dress in an unexpected way–a flour sack. For a long time, we were a nation of Flour Sack Girls.

Over and above an ABC book, What's That Sound? teaches the letters in the order of the most common sounds, with the same strategic concepts used by literacy specialists in the field. Author LeAnne Bauman Litka playfully engages young lsteners. Uniquely helpful to different learning styles, this book includes smart cues to help listeners discover beginning, middle, and end sounds. It cleverly illustrates the ideas that some letters represent more than one sound.