Help your child prepare for kindergarten, develop confidence with age-appropriate activities, and acquire basic skills. "The Get Ready for School" books include entertaining and rewarding activities such as completing patterns, matching pairs, identifying sets, matching words or numbers to pictures, connecting the dots, completing mazes, and much more. Ninety-six write-on, wipe off pages allow children to practice skills over and over again. Sixty-four additional activity pages as well as memory game cards and congratulatory stickers reinforce the exercises and add to the learning and fun!
"Letters" teaches basic pre-reading skills such as:
-Learning to write upper case and lower case letters
-Identifying beginning and ending sounds
-Rhyming
-Completing words
-Practicing alphabet order
-Distinguishing letters
-Matching upper case and lower case letters
-Completing letter patterns

In this colorful book you will find shapes everywhere. Take time to pause...you might be surprised at what you see.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Have you ever found a raccoon in your house? Sometimes raccoons just happen, like life. Find out what one little girl does when she finds a raccoon in her house. Raccoons can be very dangerous, so if you happen to see one, you should tell a grown up immediately (in case you are not a grown up) because grown ups usually know what to do about these things Read the poetry and enjoy the funny illustrations of Penelope Dyan as your child learns the concept of size, and use this book as a starting block to talk to your child about the meaning of bigger and smaller, and the relationships of size. Penelope Dyan, author of 'Surfer Girl, ' best teen book at the 2008 New York Book Festival and best teen book at the 2008 Hollywood Book Festival, a former teacher and attorney, really understands kids. She brings all her knowledge and love of children with her as she writes her books, and like all Bellissima Books, her books have a lesson and a purpose.Penelope Dyan is also the cocreator of the Animal Rescue Series and the Comeback Kids Book Series (and more) along with photographer John D. Weigand, books for kids that look great on your coffee table.

What better way to learn shapes than by drawing them? A hot air balloon and a car are already drawn on the page, children just have to fill in their missing circles. From there, they are encouraged to draw anything they like shaped like a circle. Next, after counting all the squares in a fun picture of a room full of books, they come up with their own square-shaped drawings. By the end of the book, kids have learned about shapes and have a book full of artwork to enjoy--or erase and start again

Samuel Square is Shape Land's rudest shape
He always sticks his tongue out at the other shapes and says "Pthhhhhhh "
He buys some roller blades and whizzes around Shape Land causing mischief, ending up stuck in a dustbin.
Will his shaped friends be able to pull him out? Or will Samuel Square finally have to learn some manners?
Find out in this pre-school story which helps educate children on shapes, in a fun, exciting way that can be told time and time again.

‘On the night before Tim’s birthday, he finds a rebus note, a secret message directing him to his gift. Youngsters can read the note with him, then follow him up, down, and through the various-shaped, brightly colored [die-cut] pages to find the puppy at the end. . . . ‘A Very-First-Step-To-Learning Book’ dealing with directional concepts.’ —CE.

These cards will help your child become familiar with basic shapes and their names. Each extra thick flash card will feature a shape on the write and wipe side, and the name of the shape on the reverse.

The bugs are on parade. One is big, the next is bigger, and the next is the biggest bug of all. Learning how to compare and contrast sizes is an important early math skill and one of the most basic forms of mathematical reasoning. "The Best Bug Parade" makes comparing sizes and enjoyable activity for the very youngest math student. Full color.

Create your very own zoo adventures by telling your story with stickers!

The zoo is filled with so many colorful characters, from lions, tigers, and bears, to gorillas, hippos, and monkeys, and there are so many stories just waiting to be told. Sticker Stories: At the Zoo is your chance to tell these stories yourself! This unique activity book features fun story prompts and colorful scenes to complete. With more than 150 stickers and some simple step-by-step drawing lessons to make the scenes your own, Sticker Stories:At the Zoo is a fun, interactive book that provides hours of entertainment.

Featuring Nila Aye's cheerful, retro-modern illustrations and simple step-by-step drawing instruction, this book encourages imagination and creative play by allowing kids to tell their own stories and express themselves through drawing. The simple prompts and colorful stickers will have young creative types telling tall tales and learning to draw in no time. It’s the perfect jump-start into storytelling and drawing for young authors and artists!

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Uno? Dos? Tres?

QuE inventarAs?

Lee el libro y lo verAs!

QuE puedes hacer con diez puntos negros? Las posibilidades son infinitas!

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!

This book is a perfect way for children to learn all about shapes and patterns. Eight common shapes are introduced with their names and features and there are lots of ideas for adding patterns to pictures. The activities provide endless pen control practice, and the wipe-clean pages allow children to re-visit each activity again and again.

Gigantic teddy bears, tiny sparkling stars, tall and short towers of building blocks, children wearing funny clothes that don't fit them properly...all of these and more will help young readers to grasp the concepts of size. Youngsters will enjoy comparing the sizes of different objects and identifying opposites such as big and little, long and short, and wide and narrow. The straightforward text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning - can you find the smallest toy boat, are these shoes the right size, and can you name all the tiny objects that are grouped on the final page? This first words and picture book will delight and inform early learners, who will love looking at it, either with a grown-up or by themselves. Experts agree that preschool children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations. Compiled with the advice of educational specialists, this fun padded boardbook combines lively, simple text with bright, bold action images showing a child's-eye view of the world.The pictures are carefully arranged into visual and subject groups, beginning with comparisons of things that are small, big, bigger and biggest, and items that are the same size. Young readers can also compare kittens with long and short tails, thick and thin slices of bread, wide and narrow gaps for the kids in the photographs to squeeze through, and tall and short vases of pretty flowers. This will encourage children to make connections, and to notice how various things develop and work together. That's the long and short of it!

A colourful workbook to introduce children to fractions using the Maths Mastery approach! It's time to master the world of maths with this brand new workbook developed by experts to cover all the essential skills for children in the first stages of their maths journey. Specifically designed for children aged 5-7, this maths exercise book can gently help your child learn about fractions, using both shapes and numbers. Let Maths - No Problem! open your eyes to the wonderful world of numbers! So what are you waiting for? Dive straight in to discover: -Character-led learning with fun and friendly illustrations -Comprehensive and thorough coverage of key concepts -Helpful hints for extra practice Heard of Maths Mastery but don't know where to begin? Don't worry, DK has got you covered! Maths Mastery is a transformational approach to teaching mathematics that was developed in Singapore and is now used around the world, including in thousands of schools across the UK. Children are taught multiple methods to solve maths problems, enabling them to gain a thorough and adaptable understanding of topics, making it easier for them to apply their knowledge to different scenarios. Each topic is studied in depth to develop a secure understanding of maths concepts. This leads to greater progress in maths learning, as topics are well understood and therefore don't need to be revised in great detail, meaning each new concept builds on prior learning. Based on this widely successful approach, this wonderful workbook is full of top-tips led by appealing characters who offer useful guidance to parents and children alike with the goal of making learning maths both accessible and interesting. This workbook is part of a new series developed in partnership with the award-winning educational publisher Maths - No Problem! The books encourage a deep knowledge of core maths concepts without fostering a reliance on memorisation or rote learning. In fact, Maths - No Problem! is widely used in schools in the UK and its Teacher Hub receives 4,000 daily visits on average during term time! A must-have maths book for children aged 5-7 at a Key Stage 1 level, as well as for adults who wish to become more familiar with maths taught in schools, to better support their children at home. From halves and quarters to comparisons and quantities, this helpful workbook covers it all whilst incorporating an inclusive approach which builds self-confidence so that no child feels they 'can't do maths'. At DK, we believe in the power of discovery. So why not explore the rest of the workbooks in our Maths - No Problem! Master Maths At Home, series? Each workbook can be bought individually or as part of a collection, specifically targeted to early learners aged 5-7 at a Key Stage 1 level. Multiply like a magician with Maths - No Problem! Multiplication and Division, Ages 5-7 (Key Stage 1) and join the geometry journey with Maths - No Problem! Geometry and Shape, Ages 5-7 (Key Stage 1). It's as easy as 1, 2, 3!