Families with same-sex parents are celebrated in this board book that follows busy moms and their kids throughout their day — eating breakfast, going on a playdate, heading to the pool for a swim, and settling back in at night with a bedtime story and a good-night lullaby. See also My Two Dads and Me (opens in a new window) by the same creators.
My Two Moms and Me
If you plant bulbs and seeds and nurture their growth, you can grow a rainbow! Bright collage illustrations of flowers introduce young children to nature’s cycle and the colors of the rainbow.
Planting a Rainbow
A skyscraper is built from the ground up, surprising readers when the finished building pop-ups (literally!). The last image shows the boy who is satisfied after completing his tabletop structure. Real and imagined combine in the sturdy format sure to inform and delight.
Zoom: Construction Site Adventure
The simple question is addressed as flaps twice unfold to reveal different animals with their parents. Sturdy pages support lush illustrations which conclude when baby elephant is found — with mommy, of course!
Where’s Baby Elephant?
Young readers can feed animals in these clever books. As sturdy pages turn, a pop-up mouth (or beak) opens just the right size for the “food” attached (by ribbons) stored at the back. Children will enjoy feeding the critters and may learn a thing or so along the way. Also in the series: Hungry Animals (opens in a new window).
Hungry Pets
Cheerful animal homes are depicted in bold shapes and bright colors accompanied by simple rhyme. A sturdy disc in a durable track on each page encourages readers to trace the outline of the home. Jolly animals are similarly presented in 5 Wild Animals (opens in a new window) .
5 Wild Homes
Comical, colorful critters from one to 12 are illustrated. Cardinal numbers in both word and symbol are presented on sturdy double pages. Equally humorous are Animal Colors (opens in a new window) which looks at color while Animal ABC (opens in a new window) provides a bit of animal information along with the alphabet.
Animal 123
Where is baby elephant? None of the animals and their young on the first or even the second foldout have seen her. Of course, baby elephant is with her mommy revealed on the final pages of this handsomely illustrated book with large gatefolds presented on well-made pages.
Where’s Baby Elephant
Take a jaunt through a jungle to meet animals with a short rhyme and then lift the flap to “hear” and see them hiss, roar, and more. Durable pages and boldly shaped animals create an attractive, interactive book sure to engage young listeners
Roar!
Momo, a black and white border collie, explores the great outdoors with a young canine friend named Boo. Crisp photographs on sturdy, well-designed pages make this seek-and-find book and adventure as well as an opportunity to talk about what young readers are viewing.
Let’s Find Momo Outdoors!
Photographs of infants on their tummies are accompanied by a brief and reassuring, gently rhyming text. This lively board book unfolds accordion-style and can be placed upright — tummy-time babies will lift their heads to see the beautiful, diverse faces surrounding them.
Tummy Time Friends
A tadpole, a snail, a squirrel and other creatures each ask, “who is my daddy?” The reader then must decide which of 4 choices, but another page turn pictures the adult critter with its offspring. Colorful, child-like, and slightly abstract illustrations are presented on sturdy pages.
This Is My Daddy
Simple shapes, bright colors, and a silly story combine to present basic concepts. This board book is sure to engage young children.
This Is a Book of Shapes
Make getting ready for bed an adventure with familiar creatures as young children try to guess who (or what) they will find. With a lift of each sturdy flap, the hidden answers are found.
Sleep Tight Very Hungry Caterpillar
Familiar (and a few not so familiar) traditional rhymes are presented and illustrated in a simple, child-like style.
Pat-A-Cake: First Book of Nursery Rhymes
There’s more to this book than first meets the eye. Travel the world, meet various animals, name them, and count them. Then look closely at each image to see (intricately presented) the wildlife contained in each shape.
Paper Peek Animals
A mouse’s unexpected adventure begins with a sneeze (ACHOO) and buzzes on to a comfortable and quite unique place to sleep (ZZZ). This alphabetic journey is told primarily through vibrantly colored illustrations reminiscent of folk art punctuated by lively alliterative words and sounds.
Eek! A Noisy Journey from A to Z
Explore different professions and jobs from A to Z, or just look at the illustrations. Brief descriptions of each job’s primary focus accompany the colorful, accessible illustrations on sturdy pages.
ABC What Can I Be?
Provides the English and Cree words for colors, along with the pronunciation.
Black Bear Red Fox (Colours in Cree)
Black cat. White cat. One is stretching out, and the other is crouching. When both perch in a window, one tail is straight, the other one curly. With a mouse to entertain them, variously lost and found, they move through the day, until one cat is awake and the other asleep. The pure color and simple shapes of the stylized illustrations reveal an elegant use of negative and positive space.
Up Cat Down Cat
With a spin of a sturdy wheel, familiar words in different languages appear in a die-cut window atop each photograph. Babies and older people say “hello” and “goodbye” with 18 other commonplace words in-between.
20 First Words in 20 Languages
A red crab hides in order to surprise the blue fish, green sea turtle, and other colorful unsuspecting sea creatures until something bigger comes along. The rhyming text and bright illustrations are sure to inform and delight young readers.
Snap: A Happy Book of Colors
Animals can be found in forests, under the sea, and even on a safari. But in this sturdy book, one has to lift a flap — maybe two — to find them.
My Peekaboo Animals
How do you feel when you see red? Does pink make you feel differently? Explore feelings with colorful animals in rhyming text and simple illustrations, easy to find with color-coded felt tabs.