Babies and toddlers are fascinated by pictures of other children, and they will delight in looking at this special padded boardbook with grown-ups and by themselves. It features all sorts of expressions - from happy to sad, from silly to shy, and much more. Learning is both stimulating and fun with bright, exciting photographs of funny faces throughout. Visually exciting, fun to use and built to endure, 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, showing a variety of facial expressions, including painted faces and a game of peek-a-boo. 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 fabulous photographs and engaging text throughout, learning will be a fun experience for all.

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.

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.

Bodies are fascinating to babies and toddlers as they gradually learn what each part is called, how it works and what it can help them to do. Here are lots of bright pictures showing young children using different parts of their anatomy, such as the mouth, eyes, nose, ears and hands. Clear annotations show various features, from external ones such as arms, eyelashes and fingernails, to internal ones like bones, teeth and (open wide!) the tongue. The simple, lively text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning - what makes you sneeze, are your eyes blue or brown, and do you draw with your right hand or your left hand? It includes pages about animals, whose bodies can do different things, such as a monkey's long tail for balance and a seagull's feathery wings for flight. It is developed with the advice of expert consultants, this first words and picture book will delight babies and young children, 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. This chunky boardbook is visually appealing, designed for preschoolers to enjoy and to learn from. It is full of fun images of youngsters just like them using their bodies to talk, eat, smile, sniff, sneeze, dance, hop, skip, and much more. Readers will discover what the parts of the body are for, and how they can vary in appearance. Devised with the help of educational experts, this series combines lively, simple text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy skills. The images are carefully grouped into visual and subject patterns, such as animal bodies, various limb actions and all the things the mouth can do. This encourages young readers to make connections, and to see how different things develop, work and link together.

Young children always enjoy looking at bright pictures, and with this book they can learn about mixing and matching at the same time. They can unite pairs of shoes, group together all the red objects, spot all the spotted things, find a nose for the clown, match the cup to the saucer, and have hours of fun sorting by pattern, shade, shape, size and number. The straightforward text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning - how many green things can you find, who is the smallest in your family, and have the kittens got a saucer of milk each? This first words and picture book will delight and inform children, whether reading on their own or with an adult. 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 shows lots of appealing and everyday things that go together - and lots of things that don't!Readers are invited to pair up the mixed-up socks, group objects by their appearance, count whether there are enough spoons for all the ice-cream sundaes, and much more. The images are carefully arranged into visual and subject groups, such as pairs of things, size, shape, natural partners, and types of clothing. This encourages young readers to make connections, and to see how various things relate and link together.

Babies and toddlers adore baby pets and farm animals, and they will find lots of them in this inviting picture book, from puppies and kittens to ponies and piglets. This is a first words and recognition book for children to look at, either by themselves or with grown-ups. The informative and entertaining say-and-point style encourages word skills with strong, simple pictures. Learning is both stimulating and fun with bright, exciting photographs of cute animals throughout. This wonderful padded boardbook will bring a smile to any little one's face. It covers many of the best-loved baby animals, from domestic pets such as cuddly rabbits to farmyard creatures such as fluffy chicks. With fabulous photographs and engaging text throughout, learning will be a fun experience for all. This exciting range of books is designed to capture a child's attention with images and shapes that he or she will immediately recognize. Meanwhile, the parent, guardian or teacher can point to and repeat the words and simple phrases. Visually interesting, fun to use and built to last, the Say and Point series is an ideal introduction to the world of books.

Babies and toddlers love the surprises that a game of peekaboo involves, and so they will delight in looking at this appealing first picture book - either with their carers or by themselves. This book offers straightforward text and stimulating word play on an everyday subject that children will recognize. It is full of clear, cheerful photographs of people, animals and toys hiding and then being revealed - who is under the big sun hat...? Peekaboo! Visually exciting, fun to use and built to last, this is an ideal introduction to the world of books. This special padded boardbook 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 their toys and their pets. For example, who is that behind the flower pot...? Peekaboo - it's a cat! Exciting and entertaining, this lively book is designed to capture a child's attention with images and shapes that he or she will immediately respond to. Meanwhile, the child's parent, guardian or teacher can point to and repeat the words and simple phrases.With engaging photographs and accessible text throughout, which book is a fun first step towards reading. ..? Peekaboo!

Young children always like to look at bright pictures, and here they can learn about nature at the same time - not just animals and plants, but also weather, the seasons of the year, and different environments. In this book, they will see fluffy chicks, scuttling crabs, waddling ducks, feathery ferns, thorny roses and many other enticing photographs that will teach them all about the natural world. Early learners will love identifying all the animals, plants and objects, and the straightforward, lively text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning. This first words and picture boardbook will delight and inform little ones, who will enjoy looking at it with grown-ups or by themselves. Experts agree that young children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations. This book is visually appealing, designed for preschoolers to enjoy and to learn from. It is full of fun images of youngsters just like them, together with familiar and strange plants and creatures - everything from a shy rabbit to a spiny puffer fish.Devised with the help of educational specialists, the book combines simple text with bold, bright images to promote the development of literacy skills. The material is grouped into visual and subject patterns, such as spring, summer, autumn, winter, in the forest, and under the sea. The final two pages challenge young readers to remember where they saw certain pictures before. This encourages them to make connections, and to see how various things evolve, work and link together.

Babies and toddlers will love this padded book full of enchanting action photographs of cuddly kittens. This is a first words and recognition book for children to look at, either by themselves or with grown-ups. It features strong, simple pictures and accessible text. The photos are tagged with straightforward word labels to encourage children to join in as you read. Learning is both exciting and fun with bright, cheerful photographs of cute kittens throughout. This book is full of bright and bold real-life pictures. It has been specially compiled with the advice of expert consultants to appeal to the awakening visual senses of babies and toddlers. It will capture any child's attention with images and shapes that he or she will immediately recognize and respond to. Here are kittens that are curious, kittens that are hungry, kittens that are daring, kittens that are sleepy...but all of them are adorable! This wonderful padded boardbook will bring a smile to any little one's face. Meanwhile, grown-ups can point to and repeat the words and simple phrases. With fabulous photographs and engaging text throughout, learning will be a fun experience for all.

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.

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!

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.

All young children adore pets - and here they will find all the best-loved types, from dazzling fish and cute kittens to playful puppies and hungry hamsters. You can find out what dogs and cats like to eat, learn what baby fish are called, and see some of the different breeds. The simple, lively text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning. It includes special themed pages on how to take care of an animal - and pet playtime, with lots of children stroking their rabbits and cuddling their guinea pigs. Young readers will love looking at, pointing to and recognizing all the animals, either on their own or with a grown-up. Experts agree that young children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations. Devised with the help of educational specialists, this first words and picture boardbook is visually appealing, designed for preschoolers to enjoy and to learn from. It is full of fun images of animals of all shapes and sizes - from tiny, shiny goldfish to a big bay horse. The book combines straightforward text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy and recognition.The images are grouped by species, showing key facts about each one, such as the food and toys each animal likes, and pictures of mothers with their babies. The final pages challenge readers to link various creatures with the items they need. This encourages youngsters to make connections, and to see how various things evolve and work together.

All babies and toddlers enjoy making a mess - despite their carers' best efforts! They will take huge delight in this fun-packed first picture book, either with grown-ups or by themselves. It features straightforward text and stimulating word play on everyday activities that little ones will identify with. The say-and-point style encourages word skills and recognition in youngsters. It is full of clear, cheerful photographs of children just like them, making a mess while having meals, playing with sand, doing some gardening, unwrapping presents, and painting with brushes or fingers - or even feet! Lots of things are messy, aren't they? But that just makes them more enjoyable! Lunch is messy. Look, no spoon! Juice is messy. Whoops! Making cakes is messy. The mixture is all sticky...and the icing is all runny...but the cakes are delicious! Making a collage is messy. Oh no - the paper has stuck to her hand! This special padded boardbook will bring a smile to any little one's face. It has been designed to capture a child's attention with images and ideas that he or she will readily respond to.Meanwhile, the parent, guardian or teacher can point to and repeat the words and simple phrases. This book is an ideal first step towards reading - even if it does involve a messy footprint or two!

Shapes are endlessly fascinating to babies and toddlers as they gradually learn to recognize each one and discover where it is found. This book will encourage young children to spot all the different shapes in the world around them, from square books (like this one!) and circular plates to triangular cheese wedges and cylindrical food cans. The straightforward text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning - what shape is a ball, can you see all the shapes that have been put together to make a picture, and what is a star-shaped sea creature called? 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. 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 pictures of shapes that youngsters will encounter in the real world.The images are carefully arranged into visual and subject groups, beginning with simple two-dimensional squares, circles, triangles, rectangles, ovals, hearts and stars, before moving on to solid shapes (including a sphere, a cube, a pyramid, cylinders and a cone) and shapes found in nature. This will encourage young readers to make connections, and to notice how various things develop and work together.

Colours are endlessly fascinating to babies and toddlers as they gradually learn what each shade is called and discover which ones they like best. Here are all the main colours and the objects that are often associated with them, such as red tomatoes, strawberries, roses and poppies. The simple, lively text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning - what colour are your eyes, for example, and when do leaves turn brown? Developed with the advice of expert consultants, this first words and picture book will delight babies and young children, 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. This padded boardbook is visually appealing, designed for preschoolers to enjoy and to learn from. It is full of fun images of youngsters just like them, together with cute animals, plants, food and other items in all the different shades - red, blue, yellow, green, orange, pink, brown, black and white. Devised with the help of educational experts, this book combines lively, simple text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy skills. The images are carefully arranged into visual patterns, such as things that can be green, including apples, grapes, beans, leaves, a frog and a lizard. This encourages young readers to make connections, and to see how various things develop, work and link together.

Babies and toddlers love trying on different clothes - and they will find plenty of outfits to look at in the bold, bright photographs inside this padded boardbook! The simple, lively text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning, asking which clothes would a baby wear on a cold day, and what am I dressed up as? The final pages test how many different kinds of clothes the reader has remembered. This first words and picture book will delight and inform children, whether reading on their own or with an adult. Visually exciting, fun to use and built to endure, this is an ideal introduction to the world of books. Experts agree that preschool children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations, and so this chunky boardbook shows a great variety of garments. There are clothes for keeping warm when it is cold outside, clothes for staying dry when it is raining, clothes for keeping cool, clothes for doing sports, clothes for our top halves and clothes for our bottom halves. Compiled with the advice of educational experts, this book combines lively, simple text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy skills. The images are carefully arranged into visual and subject groups, such as baby clothes, night clothes, dressing-up costumes to wear at a party, and clothes with different patterns on them. This encourages young readers to make connections, and to see how various things work and link together.

Babies and toddlers will love this padded book packed with enchanting photographs of cute puppies getting up to all kinds of mischief. This is a first words and recognition book for children to look at, either by themselves or with grown-ups. It features strong, simple pictures and engaging word play. Learning is both exciting and fun with bright, cheerful photographs of lovable puppies throughout. These puppies want to come home with you - they promise to be good! This book is full of bright and bold real-life pictures. It has been specially compiled with the advice of expert consultants to appeal to the awakening visual senses of babies and toddlers. It will capture any child's attention with images and shapes that he or she will immediately recognize and respond to. Here are playful puppies, hungry puppies, tired puppies, puppies playing music and even puppies on the phone! This book will bring a smile to any little one's face. Meanwhile, grown-ups can point to and repeat the words and simple phrases. With fabulous photographs and engaging text throughout, learning will be a fun experience for all.

Enjoy looking at lots of different pictures - and have lots of fun counting at the same time! Here are all the numbers up to ten, illustrated in a variety of ways to engage the young child. The numbers are shown in letters and figures, and in bright photographs of familiar objects, such as two warm gloves, a dog's four legs, or eight building blocks. The simple, lively text encourages reading skills and interactive questioning. Young readers will love counting all the various objects, from one shiny balloon to ten fingers, either on their own or with an adult. Experts agree that young children respond more immediately to photographs than to illustrations. This first words and picture boardbook is visually appealing, designed for preschoolers to enjoy and to learn from. It is full of fun images of youngsters just like them, together with cute animals, plants, food, toys and other items - from one teddy bear to ten toes. Kids can copy the girl counting on her fingers along the way. Devised with the help of educational specialists, this book combines straightforward text with bold, bright photographs to promote the development of literacy and numeracy skills.The images are carefully grouped into visual and subject patterns, such as showing animals with certain numbers of legs. This encourages young readers to make connections, and to see how various things develop, work and link together.