Hilda And The Cup Babies - turning the hearts of parents back to their children and turning the hearts of children back to their parents. Hilda And The Cup Babies is a unique series of stories that focus on educational and social lessons. Our stories are centered around heartwarming family engagement principles. Our stories are fictional with non-fictional topics. Our stories provide a distinctive experience of story- sharing that strengthens academic capabilities while supporting moral and social sensitivities. Hilda And The Cup Babies books and media extensions also provide an ethical platform purposed to inspire strong family bonds by promoting the importance of leadership, responsibility, and honorable values in future generations. Hilda And The Cup Babies promotes: Child and family welfare, integrity, courage, respect, social responsibility, personal responsibility, moral responsibility, educational responsibility, and family responsibility. The educational topics of I Am Not Afraid to Read are decoding, sight/tricky words and automaticity. One of the most important obstacles to fluent reading and good comprehension is lack of 'automaticity' the skill to identify letters, letter-sound correspondences, and isolated words quickly and accurately. Children who have not formed automaticity in decoding by certain intellectual timelines are at risk for reading failure. The back pages of this book contain kindergarten through 2nd grade foundation words, word families, vowel teams, vowel combinations, digraphs, blends, trigraphs, and alphabet sounds for reading supports and strengthening.