What can you make with one oval, two circles, and eight triangles? Just ask three clever mice--who even find a funny way to trick a sneaky cat. Ellen Stoll Walsh once again proves that she's a master of concept books in this celebration of shapes, color, and innovation.

What's better than a truck? A truck on top of another truck! Trucks on Trucks hits the highways and the byways while exploring basic concepts such as size, shape, color, numbers, and professions. A wonderful choice for children who love vehicles vehicles and books such as Donald Crews's Truck and Freight Train, and Alice Schertle and Jill McElmurry's Little Blue Truck. Trucks on trucks on trucks! Large trucks, small trucks, red trucks, blue trucks . . . and don't forget about your truck. Featuring Sorche Fairbank's lively, rhythmic text and illustrator Nik Henderson's bold and energetic art, this picture book stars page after page of trucks hauling trucks. Trucks on Trucks is custom-built for vehicle lovers and introduces young readers to basic preschool concepts such as size, colors, numbers, professions, and community. A fresh new take on the classic "things that go" theme.

"The shape of you, the shape of me, the shape of everything I see.." In this board book featuring bright new colors and the original whimsical text, Dr. Seuss introduces the concept of shapes to babies and toddlers.  

A charmingly funny read-aloud that asks an important question: "Who sank the boat?" Beside the sea, there once lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. They were good friends, and one warm, sunny morning, for no particular reason, they decided to go for a row in the bay. Do you know who sank the boat? "The idea is funny, the pictures are splendid, and the easy text is just right for the very young."-The New Yorker "A bright, brisk tale, simply told, illustrated by cheerful, comical pictures."-The Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books

Skippyjon has an overactive imagination. And he is pretty active himself. Here he shapes up with shapes: he runs in a circle, tap-dances on a square, orbits an oval. And then the great sword fighter shows his muscles.

Everyday activities such as sharing a meal, sorting socks, and getting ready for school can be part of learning math. In the MathStart series, everyday life is the basis for each entertaining story. Simple math concepts are embedded in each story so that young children intuitively understand them. Adults can use the creative suggestions for activities in the back of each book to extend learning opportunities with children.

Developmentally appropriate and correlated to school grade levels and the curriculum standards of the National Council of Teachers Of Mathematics, MathStart can give children a head start!

Matt and Mia's Adventures were written to encourage children to develop a love for reading. The books contain fun stories that focus on early literary skills, such as counting and identifying shapes and colours. There are five stories in the series: Matt and Mia Meet a Bully; Matt and Mia Build a Bridge; Matt and Mia in the Garden; Matt and Mia help Eddy; Matt and Mia rescue Tom Cat.

Young children always enjoy looking at bright pictures, and with this book they can learn about mixing and matching at the same time. They can unite pairs of shoes, group together all the red objects, spot all the spotted things, find a nose for the clown, match the cup to the saucer, and have hours of fun sorting by pattern, shade, shape, size and number. The straightforward text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning - how many green things can you find, who is the smallest in your family, and have the kittens got a saucer of milk each? This first words and picture book will delight and inform children, whether reading on their own or with an adult. Compiled with the advice of educational specialists, this special padded boardbook combines lively, simple text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy skills. Experts agree that preschool children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations, and this book shows lots of appealing and everyday things that go together - and lots of things that don't!Readers are invited to pair up the mixed-up socks, group objects by their appearance, count whether there are enough spoons for all the ice-cream sundaes, and much more. The images are carefully arranged into visual and subject groups, such as pairs of things, size, shape, natural partners, and types of clothing. This encourages young readers to make connections, and to see how various things relate and link together.

Young children always enjoy looking at bright pictures, and with this book they can also learn to recognize, name and create different patterns. It includes everyday shapes such as wiggly toothpaste or squishy spiral cake, manufactured ones like spotted party balloons or splotches of messy paint, and natural ones such as stripes on a zebra or ripples in water. The straightforward text encourages reading skills and interactivity - see what patterns you can find on a wing of a butterfly, make zigzags in wet sand, and count the rings to find out the age of a tree. This first words and picture book will delight and inform early learners, who will love looking at it with grown-ups or by themselves. Compiled with the advice of educational specialists, this special padded boardbook combines lively, simple text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy skills. Experts agree that preschool children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations, and this book is full of lively images of objects, activities and people that youngsters will encounter in the world around them.The images are carefully arranged into visual and subject groups, such as spots, checks, zigzags, wiggles, swirls, spirals, natural patterns, animal patterns, and patterns that we can make ourselves - such as drizzles of icing or footprints on the ground. Young readers will see and identify with the pictures of children just like them, encouraging them to make connections, and to see how various things develop and work together.

Early readers will love discovering the animals hidden in this book. Just turn each page to make the vibrant patterns come to life! Perfect for developing early perception skills, stimulating the imagination - and simply having fun!

Just how big is a crocodile? What about a tiger, or the world's largest spider? Can you imagine a tongue that is two feet long or an eye that is bigger than your head? Sometimes facts and figures don't tell the whole story. In this visually stunning book, seeing is believing as Steve Jenkins illustrates animals both large and small at ACTUAL SIZE.

Discover the fascinating world of geometry in this lift-the-flap book, from flat and solid shapes to symmetry, patterns and angles. Learn about different shapes, discover patterns and tessellations, test your knowledge in a shapes challenge and more. With links to specially selected websites for online games, printable activities and video clips.