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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.

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.

Beautifully drawn collections of similar toy vehicles invite young children to explore shapes, colors, and details until they can put their finger on the lost item shown on the previous page. Reds, blues, greens, boats, trucks, helicopters-there is something here to capture every child's attention! As a bonus, children can play with friends to see who will find the missing toy first, play with the book upside-down, or search for the object that doesn't belong on each page.

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!

Beautifully drawn collections of similar houses invite young children to explore shapes, colors, and details until they can put their finger on the exact house shown on the previous page. Farmhouse, igloo, skyscraper, teepee, hut, pagoda-there is a house type for everyone! As a bonus, children can play the game with friends to see who will find the house first, play with the book upside-down, or search for the stray object that doesn't belong on each page.

Hop on board our amazing train for a fun-filled learning journey! We're at the station and ready to go. We're off to explore shapes, playtime and so much more. All aboard everyone! 'This beautifully illustrated and engaging story introduces shape recognition, a key early learning skill. It is great to share with young children. Visit the park, the playground, the boating lake and the funfair to spot circles, squares, triangles, patterns and lots more! With lots to learn, spot, count and talk about on every page, this brilliant train ride is worth taking again and again!

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.

Make learning first colours, shapes, and words fun for babies with 16 colourful flashcards to develop early language skills.

With a vibrant image on every flashcard, these sturdy picture cards are perfect for preschool play. My First Colours and Shapes have talking points on the back of each card to reinforce learning, helping to familiarise children with a variety of objects, like the blue fish, the triangle-shaped hat, and the diamond kite.

There is an additional card of parent guidance with tips for creative learning games for you and your little one to share.

Full set: diamond kite, green leaf, heart purse, circle ball, square present, triangle hat, rectangle door, pink shoes, red tomato, orange orange, yellow duckling, brown cake, black and white dog, grey pebbles, blue fish, and purple dress.

Get your child ready for starting school with fun and friendly characters Bip, Bop, and Boo. This workbook is filled with fun activities to help them explore and learn all about shapes and sizes. Children will practice recognising shapes, describing their properties, comparing sizes, and exploring patterns with interactive, hands-on sticker activities aimed at sparking curiosity and boosting confidence to inspire your child's early learning. Featuring over 80 colourful stickers, Skills for Starting School Shapes and Sizes is sure to make learning shapes and sizes fun.

Daniel has lost his favorite baseball cap in the history museum. Dapper detectives Fox and Goat are on the trail! Young children will follow their search through the exhibits and learn new concepts along the way. Is the cap hard or soft, narrow or wide, short or tall, brown or green, triangular or round? Close observers may find the cap before our professional sleuths do! This toddler's version of Sherlock Holmes is guaranteed to both engage and entertain young minds.

Using the beautiful photographic matching games inspired by National Geographic Little Kids magazine, curious children will be entertained by the satisfying puzzles using shapes, both in isolation and in their environments. In these 24-page board books, young children will learn important skills such as naming, sorting, rhyming, counting, matching, and finding through fun, interactive games and activities. These popular games featured in National Geographic Little Kids magazine use beautiful National Geographic photography to demonstrate early concepts.