Parker the Penguin Goes on Vacation By: Michael Posey Parker is an ordinary penguin with simple needs, but when news of a cold winter rolls into the Antarctic, he decides to hop on an iceberg and paddle toward his dream vacation in the Caribbean. In the Atlantic, Parker soon realizes that he hasn’t a clue which direction to go and enlists the help of some new friends to aid him in a series of misadventures. From the Galapagos to a pirate ship, Parker the Penguin Goes on Vacation reminds us to take as much pleasure in the journey as in the destination.
You're never too young to start loving flamingos, and this sparkly, touch and feel book is the perfect way to introduce little ones to these beautiful, pink-feathered birds and their cute, fluffy chicks. The simple, read-aloud text helps babies and toddlers learn about a flamingo family as they feel a tough, pointy beak, stroke soft feathers, touch a bumpy nest, and more, and see these amazing birds sparkle and shine. This delightful book is fun to share and makes a great gift or stocking filler. Little ones will love hearing about Mummy and Daddy Flamingo, feeling Mummy's webbed feet and her fine feathers, touching Daddy's glossy beak, and learning how both parents build a bumpy mud nest. Soon their smooth, shiny egg hatches, and Fluffy Flamingo Chick arrives! At the end of the day, the flamingo family snuggle together under a twinkling, starry night sky. Filled with early learning, every page has texture or an eye-catching shiny area to expand a baby or toddler's senses, and the simple design (with one main picture per page) is easy for very young children to follow. The images are bold, bright photos, perfect for little ones to focus on, and just right for helping their identification skills. Short, easy-to-follow text and fun annotation accompanies the photos, and names the images, building language and picture-and-word association - helpful for early reading. This small baby board book is a good size for little hands to hold. Babies and toddlers will love turning the tough pages themselves, which develops their fine motor skills. Part of DK's popular Baby Touch and Feel series, Baby Touch and Feel Flamingo with its exciting sparkly jacket will appeal to little ones and stimulate their learning.
Alice in Wonderland (also known as Alice's Adventures in Wonderland), from 1865, is the peculiar and imaginative tale of a girl who falls down a rabbit-hole into a bizarre world of eccentric and unusual creatures. Lewis Carroll's prominent example of the genre of "literary nonsense" has endured in popularity with its clever way of playing with logic and a narrative structure that has influence generations of fiction writing.
Whether used for thematic story times, program and curriculum planning, readers' advisory, or collection development, this updated edition of the well-known companion makes finding the right picture books for your library a breeze. Generations of savvy librarians and educators have relied on this detailed subject guide to children's picture books for all aspects of children's services, and this new edition does not disappoint. Covering more than 18,000 books published through 2017, it empowers users to identify current and classic titles on topics ranging from apples to zebras. Organized simply, with a subject guide that categorizes subjects by theme and topic and subject headings arranged alphabetically, this reference applies more than 1,200 intuitive (as opposed to formal catalog) subject terms to children's picture books, making it both a comprehensive and user-friendly resource that is accessible to parents and teachers as well as librarians. It can be used to identify titles to fill in gaps in library collections, to find books on particular topics for young readers, to help teachers locate titles to support lessons, or to design thematic programs and story times. Title and illustrator indexes, in addition to a bibliographic guide arranged alphabetically by author name, further extend access to titles.