Featuring spreads each with raised shaped objects that fit into scooped cutouts on their opposite page, these two new TouchThinkLearn books offer the youngest learners an irresistible opportunity to explore their universe in a hands-on multisensory way. Seeing the image, tracing its shape, saying its name: these modes of perception combine in a dynamic way to stimulate understanding of essential concepts. Discover-and experience-a pig by tracing its raised outline on one side and the concave form of the mud puddle it wallows in on the other. Clusters of related words on each spread offer parents and children a springboard for further conversations to encourage the language skills so crucial to later successful learning. In a format unlike any other, these groundbreaking books translate abstract thought into tangible knowledge.

Wee Gallery Friendly Faces: On the Farm provides sensory-rich entertainment for infants in a soft organic cloth book featuring four sweet farm animals. Open out the soft pages of this beautiful, touch-and-feel organic cloth book to meet Pig and her three farm friends - Chicken, Sheep and Cow. These fun, bold illustrations, presented with the noise the animal makes next to its picture, will help babies learn about animals and nature in a fun and playful way, introducing them to first concepts and even very simple words. Presented in a sweet gift box, the pages are made with extra padding for an ultra-soft feel, making them ideal for the pram or play mat - and they're machine washable! Little hands will love to explore Wee Gallery Cloth Books, a lovable collection of animals with crinkly ears that heighten babies' senses. The result of a fantastic partnership between Wee Gallery and words & pictures, the beautiful illustrations, bold lines, whimsical animals, and repeating patterns are designed to stimulate visual development in young infants, making this soft cloth book an ideal first gift. Wee Gallery are the project of a husband and wife team who have built a fun and creative world of animals and nature themes, thoughtfully designed to entertain and educate. Their books and toys take into account each stage of child development to encourage learning through play. Each of their safe and sustainable learning toys for babies are founded on years of research to support your little one's growing mind.

Specially designed to be fun to learn, this novelty die-cut book will encourage babies and toddlers to talk, focus, and learn the alphabet - with a twist! Can you find the apple? Does it have four legs? No, of course not! Turn - turn - Does it wear a crown? Try again! Twist - twist - Is it yellow and bendy? Keep going! Spin - spin - There it is - delicious! There are eight cardboard wheels built into the book, which revolve to show a variety of pictures. What does a zebra look like? Is it pink with a curly tail? No! Turn - turn - Is it fluffy with a bobble on top? Try again! Twist - twist - Is it flat with a picture on it? Keep going! Spin - spin - There it is, a horse with stripes! Jan Lewis's bright drawings of everyday objects, food and toys, friendly people and cute animals make this a wonderful aid to learning that small children will want to return to again and again.

Bob Books is back with a brand-new box about rhyming words! Perfect for beginning readers, this boxed set includes ten mini-books and thirty puzzle flashcards which focus on rhyming words. Recognizing rhyming patterns helps students build their reading vocabularies. This new Bob Books box is perfect to use alongside Set 1: Beginners and Sight Words Kindergarten and First Grade.In typical Bob Books style, these mini-books have friendly illustrations and silly stories.

"Guess who this is," said Jane.  "Guess who this is, " said Sally.  "And see the two little ones.  Guess who."

Babies and toddlers always love looking at pictures of animals - and they will find plenty of them in this boardbook, presented in bold, bright photographs! The pictures show domestic pets such as cats, dogs and rabbits, as well as familiar countryside and farmyard animals including chickens, horses and sheep. Young readers will enjoy exploring the animal themes, both on their own and with an adult. It includes lots of cute baby animals, such as fluffy chicks, hungry kittens and playful puppies. Clear annotations show the different parts of animals, such as a duck's webbed feet, a chicken's beak, a cat's whiskers, a rabbit's ears, and a horse's hooves. The simple, lively text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning - are there any frogs near where you live, how many ducklings can you see? Developed with the help of expert consultants, this first words and picture book will delight and inform babies and young children. Experts agree that preschool children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations, and so this chunky boardbook is full of fun images of animals. It is visually exciting, designed for youngsters to enjoy and to learn from. They will discover the different noises that animals make, how ducks dive into the water to feed, and what baby frogs are called. Compiled with the advice of educational experts, this series combines lively, simple text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy skills. The images are carefully grouped into visual and subject patterns, such as fully-grown animals with their young, and animals in their homes, either indoors or outside. This encourages young readers to make connections, and to see how various things evolve, link and work together.

Clear labels and simple fun texts encourage pre-readers to think and reason as they explore more than 80 vehicles and discover the huge variety of THINGS THAT GO! Selling points Promotes literacy Builds word recognition Improves hand-eye coordination Encourages interaction with a parent or sibling Brimming with surprises and fun to help instill a love of books and reading

Alphabet City is a playful, homegrown, and alliterative approach to learning the alphabet made for curious kids, magnificent mothers, golden grannies, fantastic fathers, and everyone in between. It enriches the connection between children, parents, and our cities with an uplifting and original educational approach. At its very heart and soul, Alphabet City aims to strengthen our childrens vocabulary while nurturing their imaginations. Aesthetically gorgeous and stunningly illustrated, each page paints an inspirational narrative to reinforce a childs growing library of words, while teaching them inventively about the place in which they live.

Become the ultimate dino expert with this awesome activity box. There are two terrifying T.rex skeletons inside to build, plus a fact-packed book with amazing activities for hours of prehistoric play. Complete with two whizzy dino toys, the fearsome fun will never end.

This simple presentation scheme allows readers to see how objects can be both the same and different in the eyes of various artists, cultures and time periods. Children will be fascinated to discover that boars, roses, trees or even windows can be so different from one another and from those they see every day. Adults will love the visual and cultural richness of the alphabetical tour through the Metropolitan Museum's collection. A fact section at the end of the book provides more details about each piece of art and its creator

A charming counting book filled with artful papercut illustrations for the whole family to read before bed. How many are on the bed? How many are below? Five on the Bed counts to five with young readers as they follow the clever yet simple story of a family getting ready for bed. Colorfully illustrated in papercut art, this book teaches simple concepts in a fun and engaging way.

Discover Bright Owl Books! This super simple beginning readers series, created by best-selling Step into Reading author and illustrator Molly Coxe, features vowel sounds - basic building blocks of reading - and only around 100 words in each book. With a note to parents and teachers at the beginning and story starters at the end, these books give kids the perfect start on educational success. Lion has pride in his sight. But at night? His eyes aren't fine. This fun photographic easy-to-read story features the long "i" vowel sound.

Everything is ... MAMA! Jimmy Fallon, one of the most popular entertainers in the world and NBC's Tonight Show host, was on a mission with his first children's book to have every baby's first word be DADA. And it worked! A lot of babies' first words were DADA. However, everything after that was MAMA. So take a lighthearted look at the world from your baby's point of view as different animals try to teach their children that there are other words in addition to MAMA for familiarobjects and activities.

Everyone's a winner when your child joins the authors of I Can Draw My Alphabet, where memorable rhymes and hilarious pictures make learning as easy as ABC! Little ones take great delight in the silly sausage dog and the giant ice cream, but they love it even more when creating their very own masterpiece. I Can Draw My Alphabet features a page format which encourages them to copy the illustrations or to create their own, proudly adding their name as a co-author to the front of the book. A family favourite to share and treasure. Early learning / ABC / Children's Poetry / Picture & Drawing book. Suitable for ages 3+. "A winning combination. Throughout the book both the illustrations and verse are vivid and full of life. It will keep your children happily occupied for hours." - Carole Baldock, Northern Soul