Highlights enters the coloring/activity book space with a dynamic and unique pairing of kid-pleasing activities and stories, plus a free interactive app. Kids love pets and will enjoy reading the stories, solving the puzzles, and playing the activities that involve their favorite animals. Woven throughout each book are thought-provoking questions designed to encourage kids to talk and think more deeply about the theme. The free app extends the fun for endless play.
"When Maddie and Bell miss school club sign-ups, they decide to start an official ARF group. Whether it's a bearded dragon who's under the weather, a hamster on the loose at school, or a person in need of a fur-ever friend, there's no problem this animal-loving crew can't solve together!"--Back cover.
Award-winning author-illustrator Sophy Henn shows how the animal kingdom reflects children's own worlds in these beautifully illustrated gentle narratives that lovingly reinforce diversity and invite discussion about differences and similarities.
Look at all the animal buddies with Baby Animal Friends. Cute animal duos fill up this adorable book with crystal-clear photos and read-aloud text. Baby Animal Friends engages young babies with singsong rhymes and bright, colorful pages.
Fair skin, dark skin-big, strong, tall or small- it really should not make any difference at all! Long hair, short hair-why should we care? We all still need to breathe the same air! If we were all created the same, life would be boring! In the delightfully illustrated picture book Animal Friends for You!, poet Scooter Rayburn and artist Criss Sledge work together to bring to life charming animals who teach children of all ages valuable life lessons about the importance of diversity and embracing others-no matter how different they are from us. At play in harmony with nature and with one another in scenes from around the world-including Africa, the Arctic, Australia, the North American forests, and the Land of Mythology and Faerie Tales-the animals overlook race, religion, gender, age, and species. They soon discover that true friendship is built on what is inside, not the outside. Animal Friends for You! shares the important message that being kind and friendly to others makes the world go around and encourages everlasting harmony among all of the earth's creatures.
Good friends come in all shapes and sizes! Unlikely Friendships, the runaway New York Times bestseller with a compelling message of hope and friendship and differences overcome, is rewritten just for younger readers. This hardcover chapter book for children ages seven and up collects five heartwarming true stories of animal friendship: Koko the gorilla and her favorite kittens, a dog who swims with dolphins, a zebra who cares for a young gazelle, a baby warthog who makes friends with a lonely rhinoceros, and a leopard who cuddles with a cow at bedtime. Chapter books give young readers a strong sense of accomplishment, and these heartwarming animal stories, with their incredible photographs and inexplicable mysteries of attraction, their focus on friendship, love, and the ways that creatures of all different species can find common bonds of affection, will keep kids turning the pages to find out about the unusual ways animals help each other and discover the love of new friends. Each is a perfect gift for young animal lovers, and a lovely subject to help kids get reading.
From the popular series, Animal Friends: Friends in the Jungle is filled with real fun facts about animal jungle friends that your little ones will love to explore! A family favorite that keeps young readers engaged with pictures and facts that encourage exploration, the development of cognitive skills and helps in building an early reading foundation. Spend a day with Jessica the Gorilla, Isabella the Butterfly, Babs the Monkey, Reggie the Rhino and all of the other jungle friends. All living together in the jungle, find out what Babs likes to eat, the sounds that Reggie likes to make, what Jessica spends her day doing and how the other friends in the jungle spends their day. This colorful and engaging book is filled with big and bright illustrations, simple text, and fun facts about each jungle friend. Young readers can practice fun animal recognition, the typical sounds they make and help your child learn how each animal friend spends their day in the jungle. Series Description The Animal Friends Series helps encourage young children to explore a day in the life of animals all over the world and some of their traits and characteristics. Packed with fun illustrations and real life facts, the series helps children ages 1+ develop fundamental skills like reading, thinking and learning sounds while teaching real animal habits, diets and behaviors. Each book within the series takes children into a different learning exploration within the Animal Friends World!
A beloved 1950s Little Golden Book about animal homes, sure to delight toddlers and preschoolers. In this sweet story about animal homes, a cat, a dog, a bird, a turtle, a bunny, a chick, and a squirrel all live together in a little house in the woods. They get along nicely when it comes to being quiet at nap time and keeping the house neat, but they just can’t agree on what to eat! After a meeting by the fire, the animals come up with a solution—and soon they’re all saying, “At last I’ve found the best home of all, the very best home for me.”
Silly Milli and Her Ten Stuffed Animal Friends is the second installment for Silly Milli. From her first book, we all know Milli loves all animals, and in this book, she continues that trend. This time, Milli slowly gathers her ten stuffed animal friends and counts them all along the way with a big surprise at the end!
