Children's Books

Birth & up. This colorful photo books comes with five pages to fill with 4 x 6 photos. Attached to the book for sensory are crinkle paper, ribbon loop, a wooden teether ring and hook-loop like closure. Book measures 8 1/2"L x 2"W x 6"H. This product meets or exceeds EN71 and CPSIA safety regulations. Surface wash only. Photos/images not included.

6 months & up. Lemon the Bear is so full of personality, little ones will love to read along with his many adventures in this fun book set. Along with his kitty companion, Lemon the Bear cooks dinner, plants a garden, and goes camping. Books include a variety of fabrics and features such as crinkle paper, teethers, and a squeaker. One book has an attached finger puppet oven mitt, one has a watering can made with crinkle paper, and the other one has a camera with a discovery mirror on the back.… More »

This book exemplifies the qualities - rhythmic texts, repetivite words, dynamic illustrations, and engaging story lines - that make large-format books so useful in helping children to read and learn.

Birth & up. This vinyl book is perfect for water play.

Penguin Young Readers apply the vocabulary, sentence structure, design, plot complexity, font size, and themes in varying Guided Reading levels. Each set includes eight books.

This book helps children identify emotions with words as they learn about their feelings.

Young Verdi doesn?t want to grow up big and green. He likes his bright yellow skin and sporty stripes. Besides, all the green snakes he meets are lazy, boring, and rude. When Verdi finds a pale green stripe stretching along his whole body, he tries every trick he can think of to get rid of it?and ends up in a heap of trouble. Despite his efforts, Verdi turns green, but to his delight, he discovers that being green doesn?t mean he has to stop being himself. Hardback

1 - 3 years. A celebration of a child's growing self awareness, and a prime example of how books can contribute to this. Whether brave or shy, strong or weak, in the end the young boy celebrates all different, apparently contradictory parts of himself. Board book. 24 pages.

Level 3, Grades 2-4. Designed for the independent reader with more complex themes and story lines.

Level 3, Grades 2-4. Designed for the independent reader with more complex themes and story lines.

Level 3, Grades 2-4. Designed for the independent reader with more complex themes and story lines.

This introduction to sea turtles describes their characteristics, behavior, and life cycle.

Guests at Little Frog's birthday party include the red fox, the purple butterfly, the orange cat, and other colorful animals.

An animal-filled version of the classic children's song "The Wheels on the Bus" "The seals on the bus go "errp, errp, errp" All through the town." Two children and their parents board a city bus on their way to a party. At the next stop, who should get on but a group of seals, who holler "errp, errp, errp" at the top of their lungs. Each time the bus stops a new kind of animal joins the passengers and adds to the din, to the children's delight and the parents'… More »

While on a summer vacation, Emily discovers a whale living in her garden pond. So she writes to her teacher, Mr. Blueberry, for advice on how to care for her new pet. But Mr. Blueberry reponds that she must be mistaken, as whales live in the ocean, not in ponds. In a delightful exhange of letters, Emily learns about whales, and Mr. Blueberry learns about imagination, faith, and friendship. Full color.

Author Gerald McDermott has presented picture-book enthusiasts with yet another enthralling adaptation of a well-known folktale, this one from West Africa. The trickster and folk hero, Kwaku Anansi, is a spider with six even wiser sons. In the course of the story, these six sons come to fulfill the promise of their respective colorful names as they work together to rescue their beloved father, when, one day, he wanders far from home and gets lost, seemingly forever...in the belly of a fish.

When brave Sheila Rae, who usually looks out for her sister Louise, becomes lost and scared one day, Louise comes to the rescue.

Three bears return from a walk and find a little girl asleep in the little wee bear's bed. This familiar nursery tale features a warmly appealing bear family and Goldilocks. Paperback. 32 pages.

Cuddly, colorful teddy bears teach new words to children - and they do it in two languages! The left-hand page gives picture-caption word in English and the right-hand page give the Spanish equivalent.

Froggy's mother knows that everyone's nervous on the first day of school. "Not me!" says Froggy, and together they leapfrog to the bus stop. Froggy is nervous about his first day of school, but, even though it's hard to sit still, he has a wonderful time. Paperback.32 pages.

This mixed-up barnyard tale of tolerance and friendship teaches kids (and creatures) that it's okay to be different, and sometimes even more fun! A cow that oinks and a pig that moos are ridiculed by the other barnyard animals until each teaches the other a new sound. Paperback. 40 pages.

4 - 8 years. This high-quality Spanish-language book can be enjoyed by fluent Spanish speakers as well as those learning the language, whether at home or in a classroom. Spanish paperback. 48 pages.

2 years & up. One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear's cave to warm up. But even after the tea has been brewed and the corn has been popped, Bear just snores on! Board book. 34 pages.

3 - 7 years. With simple text and vivid full-color photographs, children will see a wide range of nature's exquisite designs. This book invites children to open their eyes and look for patterns in water and on land, in the air and on the ground, and in their own neighborhoods. They will see the world as they've never seen it before. Paperback. 32 pages.