Playing and Reading

A is for armadillo . . .

B is for bluebonnets . . .

C is for cotton . . .

With F for football, J for jackrabbit, and R for Rio Grande, going from A to Z has never been more fun! Take an alphabetized field trip around the Lone Star State and discover the plants, animals, foods, and places that make it, well, Texas!

By Trish Madson

Designed by David W. Miles

Age range: 1 -3 

Number of pages: 20

Take a journey through the pages on your own rocket ship!

In Rocket, the story of a spacecraft moving through the far reaches of space, the reader gets to pilot a three-dimensional plastic rocket that never leaves the book, moving on an internal track from front to back, up and over the pages.

You’ll soar, sail, swoop, and explore, visiting some of the most intriguing sights in our solar system, then the Milky Way, and into far-off galaxies. With lively rhyming language and a feast of stars, planets, comets, moons, and other celestial bodies, it’s an interactive journey of imagination and science.

Blast off into outer space with this mess-free sticker craft!

Includes everything you need to create ten sticker paintings on sturdy card stock.. Kids will love stickering a Mars rover, a space shuttle, an astronaut, iconic celestial bodies like Saturn, Jupiter, and the Sun, and more! Plus, the back of each image includes a fascinating scientific fact about each galactic subject. Includes glow-in-the-dark stickers! 
Step 1: Find the sticker.

Step 2: Peel the sticker.

Step 3: Place the sticker. Add the next, and the next, and watch your enchanting paintings come to life!  
 
All the pages are perforated, making it easy to tear out each finished work to frame and share!

Age range: 5 - 12

Grade range: K - 6

Number of Pages: 34

Children and their parents can learn to count to ten in both English and Mandarin in this fun bilingual counting book of food.

This book features traditional Chinese food items paired with numbers in both English and Chinese. Illustrated by Rich Lo, you'll learn two is for chopsticks, five is for egg rolls, and nine is for sweet buns, and since the numbers are shown in both simplified and traditional Chinese and English, learning is both easy and fun.

Number of pages: 22

Nom Nom Shapes gives young minds food for thought—literally! Kids who love Shopkins and Num Noms will enjoy learning their shapes with the help and encouragement of adorable food characters—round cookies, square waffles, and triangle pie slices to name a few—found throughout. Even the book feels like food packaging with an acetate window on the front cover hinting at the delicious contents inside. It's food. It's education. It's cute. It's Nom Nom Knowledge!

Age range: 1 - 3

Number of pages: 16

In this colorful board book, every page is bursting with interesting animals and tons of things to discover!

Curious readers will love meeting Felix the mouse and his bright red airplane, who not only acts as their tour guide but also loves to hide himself in every scene. Tots will spend endless time playing seek-and-find with the sneaky Felix. For the nonreader, Felix has taken photographs of some of his favorite animals and has shared them on every page so kids can match the "photographs" with the animals on the maps, and beginning readers will enjoy learning about each continent and reading the names of 270 animals, easily labeled on every page. 

Structured around continents, this is the perfect first animal atlas for children, taking readers on a trip around the world to visit Europe, Africa, Asia, North America, South America, and Australia while discovering tons of extraordinary animals, from elephants, flamingos, and cows to lesser-known species like moles, tarsiers, and axolotls. 

A playful high-contrast board book from the University of Tokyo “Baby Lab”—scientifically proven to hold baby’s attention 
 
“Full of delicious colors and . . . real charm.”—The Wall Street Journal
 
What are moimoi? Playful moimoi have bold stripes and big, bright eyes. Babies find them captivating and will even stop crying to look. Parents in Japan swear by moimoi and have purchased over 500,000 books!

How do you say it? “Moi” (もい) is a fun nonsense word that rhymes with “koi.” You can change how you say it to match what the moimoi are doing—as they dance, grow, and even sing . . .

Where do they come from? At the University of Tokyo “Baby Lab,” Dr. Kazuo Hiraki tested many different high-contrast designs. Babies looked at moimoi for twice as long as the competition. Your newborn or toddler will love moimoi, too!

Number of pages: 24

1 brown desert iguana slithers through the sand

2 gorgeous green cacti decorate the land

3 sparkling white quartzite rocks glisten and gleam

4 yellow Apache trout swim deep in the stream

Numbers and colors are more fun in Arizona! In this dynamic, colorful primer, young readers count from 1 to 10—learning colors along the way—as they discover the places, animals, and other wonderful things that make Arizona so unique.

Age range: 1 - 3

Number of pages: 20

A is for aloha . . .

B is for banyan trees . . .

C is for coconuts . . .

 With E for elepaio, S for surfing, and W for Waikiki Beach, going from A to Z has never been more fun! Take an alphabetized field trip around the Aloha State and discover the plants, animals, foods, and places that make it, well, Hawaii!

By Trish Madson

Designed by David W. Miles

Age range: 2- 5

Number of pages: 20

A is for Avocado . . .

B is for Balboa Park . . .

C is for Cable Cars . . .

With D for Death Valley, H for Hearst Castle, and R for Redwoods, going from A to Z has never been more fun! Take an alphabetized field trip around the Golden State and discover the plants, animals, foods, and places that make it, well, California!

By Trish Madson

Designed by David W. Miles

Age range: 1 - 3

Number of pages: 20

A golfer swings her club. Look at the ball fly! A player gears up to kick a soccer ball soaring toward him. A basketball player's open - here comes the ball!

Making connections between images on a page and the real world is an important building block for your baby’s communication skills—and this charming introduction to sports in bold, basic patterns, provides a great high-contrast experience for young developing eyes. As newborns’ vision is not developed enough to recognize colors, the sharp contrast of high-contrast patterns and illustration allows their eyes to differentiate between the images on a page. Sure to grab little ones' attention!

Number of pages 20