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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.