Dancing peapods, parachuting frogs, energetic elephants, daredevil teddy bears and boating mice make it really fun to learn about sizes. From an introduction to comparative size to a look at real-life animal sizes and growing sequences, this book will teach children all the basics that they will need to know for their first years at school. Record your own growth, bake cookies in three different sizes, draw characters with tall and short hats, grow some bean sprouts, make a jigsaw puzzle by cutting a big picture into little pieces, and much more.

This is a busy picture book full of fabulous facts and things to do! It includes bright and lively photographs of all kinds of creatures to stimulate important verbal skills. It offers exciting step-by-step activities that encourage young children to recognize different animals - play a zoological memory game, make your own wrinkly elephant, and draw a tropical fish. 'Did you know?' Panels introduce amazing nuggets of weird and wonderful information about nature. It includes an exciting safari adventure game for youngsters to enjoy with their friends. It is developed with the aid of early learning experts. Buzzing bees, mischievous monkeys, cuddly koalas, prickly hedgehogs, spiny puffer fish, roaring lions, snappy crocodiles, and a whole host of other delightful creatures make it really fun to learn about animals! See a stag beetle's enormous jaws and the chameleon's long and sticky tongue. From a straightforward look at the ways in which animals move and the sounds they make to an exploration of their curious habits and characteristics, this book will teach young children all about the fascinating world of the animal kingdom.

Juggling teddy bears, silly clowns, flying pancakes, mysterious magicians, wicked witches and jolly pirates make it really fun to learn about words. Busy scenes, funny pictures and exciting activities will encourage young children to build up their vocabulary and develop all the early reading and writing skills they will need for their first years at school. This series has been developed with the help of educational experts. Guidance notes give advice on how to get the most from all the activities in the book.

Peanut-eating elephants, astonishing acrobats, fierce pirates, munching caterpillars and balancing bears make it really fun to learn about sums. From simple matching activities and an introduction to mathematical symbols to mastering simple addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, this volume will give children all the basic skills that they will need for their first years at school. The book has been developed with the help of educational experts, with guidance notes on how to get the most from all the activities within its pages.