Babies and toddlers love to see pictures of animals they recognize, especially animals with their young - and so they will delight in looking at this first picture book, either with grown-ups or by themselves. This book features clear images and simple words about popular farm animals, including cows, sheep, horses, ducks, chickens, and the farmyard cat who keeps the mice away. The photographs are tagged with basic word labels to encourage children to join in as you read. You can learn that a baby cow is known as a calf, little pigs are piglets, a young goat is called a kid, and much more. This book is packed with bright and bold real-life images. It has been specially compiled with the advice of expert consultants to appeal to the awakening visual senses of babies and toddlers. They can see a calf drinking its mother's milk, chickens with their fluffy chicks, a sheepdog helping a shepherd, and more. This wonderful padded boardbook will bring a smile to any little one's face. Meanwhile, grown-ups can point to and repeat the simple words and phrases. With fabulous photographs and engaging text throughout, learning will be a fun experience for all.This first picture book is an important first step into the world of books and reading.

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.

Babies and toddlers are fascinated by pictures of trucks, lorries, diggers and tractors, and they will delight in looking at all sorts of big, bright toy vehicles in this special padded boardbook - either with grown-ups or by themselves. It features strong, simple pictures and stimulating word play. There are clear pictures and straightforward text on an everyday subject that children will recognize. Visually exciting, fun to use and built to last, this is an ideal introduction to the world of books. Exciting, informative and entertaining, this lively book will bring a smile to any little one's face. The say-and-point style encourages word skills and recognition in youngsters. It features lots of young children just like them, having fun with toy diggers, dumpers, lorries, cranes, cement mixers and all kinds of other vehicles. The Say and Point Picture Boards series is designed to capture a child's attention with images and shapes that he or she will immediately respond to. Meanwhile, the parent, guardian or teacher can point to and repeat the words and simple phrases. With engaging photographs and accessible text throughout, this book is a great first step towards reading.

This is a bright boardbook full of bold action photographs of all sorts of vehicles - from the smallest child's bicycle to huge trucks and speeding express trains. Pictures of real machines are shown alongside toy versions with which little ones may be more familiar. It includes vehicles that move on land (cars, bikes, trains, tractors, diggers, dumpers and more) on water (boats and ships) and through the air. The basic, lively text encourages reading and interactive questioning, such as have you ever flown in a plane? Young readers will enjoy looking at, pointing to and recognizing all of these things that go, either on their own or with a grown-up. This first words and picture boardbook combines straightforward text with bold, bright photographs of vehicles, to promote the development of literacy and recognition. Devised with the help of educational specialists, it is visually appealing, designed for preschoolers to enjoy and to learn from. Simple captions and annotations reveal key facts about each mode of transport, such as pointing out a boat's sail, hull, rudder and keel. Look at the bristly brushes on the car wash. Who do you think will win the bicycle race?And learn how many people it takes to work a mighty excavator! The final pages challenge readers to remember the names of a selection of vehicles featured earlier on in the book. All of this encourages youngsters to make connections, and to see how various things link and work together.

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!