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 ten baby animals, paired with a friendly text, and bold basic patterns, provide a great high-contrast experience for young developing eyes. The perfect follow up to Hello, Ocean Friends.

Family traditions are special, especially when they include baking a "delicioso" cake with your abuelita! This Step 2 Reader includes Spanish words! It's Papi's birthday! Which means it's time to get in the kitchen and bake the traditional family cake - Tres Leches! Together, we'll measure the ingredients and when some of it sticks to the pan, no worries! Abuelita is there to save they day. The family is working together on this special tradition, just like Papi did with Abuelita when he was young! Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.

Your baby will fall in love with this small and sturdy accordion book that opens to stand up in a crib, on the carpet, or in a bed, making it easy for your baby to enjoy tummy time all the time. With two reflective 'mirror' pages your baby can see him- or herself and practice those future smiles! And since the American Academy of Paediatrics and other top paediatric organisations around the world recommend tummy time to help 'build the strength and coordination needed for rolling over, crawling, reaching, and playing' this book is not just fun, it's also good for your baby. Also available: TummyTime: Happy Baby, TummyTime: Animal Parade, and TummyTime: Love Is All Around.

Family traditions are special, especially when they include baking a "delicioso" cake with your abuelita! This Step 2 Reader includes some words in Spanish! It's Papi's birthday! Which means it's time to get in the kitchen and bake the traditional family cake — Tres Leches! Together, we'll measure the ingredients and when some of it sticks to the pan, no worries! Abuelita is there to save the day. The family is working together on this special tradition, just like Papi did with Abuelita when he was young!  Step 2 Readers use basic vocabulary and short sentences to tell simple stories, for children who recognize familiar words and can sound out new words with help. Rhyme and rhythmic text paired with picture clues help children decode the story.

Ladybugs, snails, and butterflies! Oh my! This charming introduction to ten garden bugs, paired with friendly text and bold, basic patterns, provides a great high-contrast experience for young developing eyes. Newborns cannot fully recognize colors, so the sharp contrast between black and white patterns and illustrations allows babies to follow along and make connections to the real world, an important building block for communication skills. Using simple greetings like Hello, bumblebee and Good to see you, dragonfly alongside black-and-white art by Julissa Mora, Hello, Garden Bugs is the perfect board book for babies just beginning to look around and learn about their world. Featured in Omnivoracious. Also available: Hello, Baby Animals and Hello, Ocean Friends. Coming soon: Hello, My World.