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1. Little Blue Truck’s Christmas
by: Alice Schertle, Jill McElmurry Release date: Sep 23, 2014 Number of Pages: 24 Find in Library Read Review |
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Little Blue Truck is spreading cheer by delivering Christmas trees to his animal friends. Can you help count each green tree from one to five and back again? Don’t forget to save one for Blue! Beep! Beep!
With the gentle rhythm and signature illustration style that made Little Blue Truck a household name, Blue’s new adventure is full of holiday warmth. Sturdy cardstock pages, a compact and child-friendly text, and flashing colored Christmas lights on the final page come together in a novelty gift book that’s sure to be the favorite treat of the season.
2. The Going-To-Bed Book
by: Sandra Boynton Release date: Nov 30, 1982 Number of Pages: 14 Find in Library Read Review |
The sun has set not long ago.
Now everybody goes below
to take a bath in one big tub
with soap all over—SCRUB SCRUB SCRUB!
This classic bedtime story is just right for winding down the day as a joyful, silly group of animals scrub scrub scrub in the tub, brush and brush and brush their teeth, and finally rock and rock and rock to sleep.
This anniversary edition has an enlarged trim size and metallic ink on the cover, making this Boynton classic even more special.
3. Press Here
by: Herve Tullet Release date: Mar 30, 2011 Number of Pages: 56 Find in Library Read Review |
Press the yellow dot on the cover of this book, follow the instructions within, and embark upon a magical journey! Each page of this surprising book instructs the reader to press the dots, shake the pages, tilt the book, and who knows what will happen next! Children and adults alike will giggle with delight as the dots multiply, change direction, and grow in size! Especially remarkable because the adventure occurs on the flat surface of the simple, printed page, this unique picture book about the power of imagination and interactivity will provide read-aloud fun for all ages!
4. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer) (Little Golden Book)
by: Rick Bunsen, Golden Books Release date: Aug 01, 2000 Number of Pages: 24 Find in Library Read Review |
5. Baby Touch and Feel: Animals
by: DK Release date: Jan 21, 2008 Number of Pages: 14 Find in Library Read Review |
This USA Today bestselling board book encourages tiny fingers to explore and develop fine motor skills while building an early language foundation. Babies will meet adorable puppies, kittens, penguins, and other animals throughout the pages of the book.
Filled with real-life animal photographs featuring touch-and-feel textures that help children develop their knowledge while increasing their use of senses, Baby Touch and Feel: Animals is the perfect size for small hands. Its padded cover can withstand biting and throwing while its thick sturdy board pages won’t tear. Your baby can practice animal recognition and perfect animal noises while touching the novelty textures on the pages.
With over one million copies sold, Baby Touch and Feel: Animals is the perfect book for your child’s bookshelf.
About the series:
Baby Touch and Feel books are the perfect series for the very youngest readers. These small, padded books excite babies and toddlers with their foil and touch-and-feel covers. Each book in this affordable series contains twelve vibrant interior pages with bold, engaging images. Containing large word labels, each page has foil or glitter to behold or a tantalizing texture to touch. These safe novelty textures intrigue babies and are perfect for little fingers to feel. The Baby Touch and Feel series encourages sensory development, language skills, and early reading skills while teaching colors, shapes, patterns, and opposites.
6. OLD MACDONALD’S FARM (Poke-A-Dot!)
by: IKids Release date: Sep 01, 2010 Number of Pages: 20 Find in Library Read Review |
7. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site and Steam Train, Dream Train Board Books Boxed Set
by: Sherri Duskey Rinker, Tom Lichtenheld Release date: Sep 15, 2015 Number of Pages: 66 Find in Library Read Review |
Even the roughest, toughest readers will want to turn off their engines and snuggle up with these sweet and soothing stories. Gentle rhyming text and vibrant art make these books surefire bedtime favorites for train- and construction-crazy kids everywhere.
8. Thanksgiving Is for Giving Thanks! (Reading Railroad)
by: Margaret Sutherland, Sonja Lamut Release date: Sep 11, 2000 Number of Pages: 24 Find in Library Read Review |
9. Dinosaur Dance!
by: Sandra Boynton, Sandra Boynton Release date: Aug 30, 2016 Number of Pages: 16 Find in Library Read Review |
ZANG! BOP!
KIDDLY POW!
The DINOSAUR DANCE
is starting NOW!
Join Boynton’s lively prehistoric bunch as they get everyone’s tails shaking for a feet-stomping good time. Whether they dance the Shimmy Shimmy Shake, the Quivery Quake, or just decide to Cha-Cha-Cha, young readers are sure to giggle along with these adorable creatures that are ready for a ROARING good time!
10. Trace Letters, Ages 3 – 5 (Big Skills for Little Hands®)
by: Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing Release date: Mar 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
11. Phonics for Kindergarten, Grade K (Home Workbook)
by: Carson-Dellosa Publishing Release date: Jan 04, 2010 Number of Pages: 64 Find in Library Read Review |
Build essential skills while having fun with Home Workbooks! Now updated with fun, colorful pages and engaging art, each book measures 7″ x 9.25″ and is filled with 64 pages of age-appropriate activities, puzzles, and games. These teacher-approved books are perfect for home, school, summer breaks, and road trips! Skills covered include beginning consonant sounds, short vowel sounds, sight word recognition, and more! An incentive chart and 140 full-color stickers are also included to help parents or teachers track student progress. Home Workbooks are available for prekindergarten through grade 3 students, and feature titles in a wide variety of skill areas to suit any need.
12. Hark! A Shark!: All About Sharks (Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library)
by: Bonnie Worth, Aristides Ruiz, Joe Mathieu Release date: Jan 08, 2013 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
13. Potty Book for Girls, The
by: Alyssa Satin Capucilli, Dorothy Stott Release date: May 01, 2000 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
14. Mix It Up!
by: Herve Tullet Release date: Sep 16, 2014 Number of Pages: 56 Find in Library Read Review |
Accept Hervé Tullet’s irresistible invitation to mix it up in a dazzling adventure of whimsy and wonder. Follow the artist’s simple instructions, and suddenly colors appear, mix, splatter, and vanish in a world powered only by the reader’s imagination. Tullet—who joins such greats as Eric Carle and Leo Lionni as a master of his craft—sets readers on an extraordinary interactive journey all within the printed page. Tullet prompts plenty of giggles in addition to a profound understanding of colors, and once again displays his unique genius and vision in a work that is a glorious and richly satisfying companion to Press Here.
15. Trace Numbers, Ages 3 – 5 (Big Skills for Little Hands®)
by: Brighter Child, Carson-Dellosa Publishing Release date: Mar 01, 2013 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
16. Dr. Seuss’s Second Beginner Book Collection
by: Dr. Seuss, Random House Release date: Sep 27, 2011 Number of Pages: 288 Find in Library Read Review |
And if you want to make a REALLY BIG impression, consider gifting this along with a copy of our first boxed set of Beginner Books, Dr. Seuss’s Beginner Book Collection. The two sets combined include all ten Beginner Books by Dr. Seuss!
17. Sesame Street: Elmo’s ABC Lift-the-Flap
by: Sesame Street Release date: Jul 22, 2014 Number of Pages: 10 Find in Library Read Review |
A is for apple. B is for ball. C is for cookie…and Cookie Monster! And F is for flaps—which kids will find plenty of in this book stuffed with surprising alphabetic words, rhymes, and riddles to discover! How many things can you find that start with the letter P? What objects are hiding behind the letter H? With more than 100 labels and 55 flaps to lift, learning the alphabet has never been so much fun!
18. Baby Touch and Feel: Puppies and Kittens (Baby Touch & Feel)
by: Dorling Kindersley Release date: Sep 01, 2008 Number of Pages: 14 Find in Library Read Review |
Filled with real-life puppy and kitty photographs that feature touch-and-feel textures that babies can stroke, tickle, and touch, Baby Touch and Feel: Puppies and Kittens is the perfect size for small hands. Its padded cover can withstand biting and throwing while its thick sturdy board pages won’t tear. Your baby can practice animal recognition and perfect animal noises while touching the novelty textures on the pages.
About the series:
Baby Touch and Feel books are the perfect series for the very youngest readers. These small, padded books excite babies and toddlers with their foil and touch-and-feel covers. Each book in this affordable series contains twelve vibrant interior pages with bold, engaging images. Containing large word labels, each page has foil or glitter to behold or a tantalizing texture to touch. These safe novelty textures immediately intrigue babies and are perfect for little fingers to feel. The Baby Touch and Feel series encourages sensory development, language skills, and early reading skills while teaching colors, shapes, patterns, and opposites.
19. J Is for Jesus: The Sweetest Story Ever Told
by: Crystal Bowman, Claudine Gevry Release date: Sep 04, 2005 Number of Pages: 20 Find in Library Read Review |
I want a candy cane too! Everyone loves a candy cane-but it’s easy to overlook the meaning of this familiar Christmas tradition in all the hustle and bustle of the season. This sweet story reminds little ones that the candy cane represents Jesus’ birth and the gospel message too.
20. 10 LITTLE MONKEYS (Poke-a-Dot!)
by: IKids Release date: Sep 14, 2009 Number of Pages: 20 Find in Library Read Review |
21. Merry Christmas, Mouse! (If You Give…)
by: Laura Numeroff, Felicia Bond Release date: Sep 25, 2007 Number of Pages: 24 Find in Library Read Review |
Join Mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie as he decorates his Christmas tree in a holiday counting adventure.
This board book with sturdy pages is perfect for toddlers, who will enjoy this simple introduction to numbers.
22. Hide-and-Go-Swim! (Bubble Guppies) (Nifty Lift-and-Look)
by: Random House, MJ Illustrations Release date: Jul 22, 2014 Number of Pages: 12 Find in Library Read Review |
23. Star Wars ABC-3PO: Alphabet Book
by: Calliope Glass, Caitlin Kennedy, Katie Cook Release date: Jun 14, 2016 Number of Pages: 48 Find in Library Read Review |
24. The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story (Picture Puffin Books)
by: Gloria Houston, Barbara Cooney Release date: Oct 01, 1996 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
25. How Do Dinosaurs Play with Their Friends?
by: Jane Yolen, Mark Teague Release date: Aug 01, 2006 Number of Pages: 12 Find in Library Read Review |
What if a dinosaur’s friends come to play?
Does he mope, does he pout if he can’t get his way?
Does he hide all his dump trucks, refusing to share?
Does he throw his friends’ coloring books up in the air?
Time and time again, children are told to “play nice.” This brilliantly illustrated board book is packed with rhymes that will teach children how. Mark Teague’s laugh-aloud illustrations, along with Jane Yolen’s playful text, will show children that “playing nice” can be easy and fun. Perfect for parents to read aloud with their children, this book is as humorous as it is instructive.
26. TouchThinkLearn: ABC
by: Xavier Deneux Release date: Sep 06, 2016 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
27. The Thanksgiving Story
by: Alice Dalgliesh, Helen Sewell Release date: Sep 01, 1985 Number of Pages: 32 Find in Library Read Review |
Giles, Constance and Damaris Hopkins are all passengers aboard the crowded Mayflower, journeying to the New World to start a new life. Things get a little more cramped when their baby brother Oceanus is born during the passage. However, when they arrive, there are even worse challenges to face as the Pilgrims are subjected to hunger, cold, and sickness that put their small colony in great danger. With the help of the Native Americans though, they might just be able to survive their first year in this strange land—and have a November harvest to celebrate for generations!
28. Toot (Leslie Patricelli board books)
by: Leslie Patricelli, Leslie Patricelli Release date: Mar 11, 2014 Number of Pages: 24 Find in Library Read Review |
Everybody does it: Kitty, Doggie, Daddy — even Mommy! And when Leslie Patricelli’s beloved bald baby does it while running, it sounds like a train. This frank and very funny look at a certain noisy body function is perfectly suited to the youngest of listeners, while their giggling older siblings will be happy to read it aloud.
29. Let’s Play!
by: Herve Tullet Release date: Mar 29, 2016 Number of Pages: 68 Find in Library Read Review |
It’s only a yellow dot…but what a dot it is! Readers won’t be able to resist this jaunty, adventurous dot, nor its invitation to play along. Thus begins a spectacular ride of color, motion, shape, and imagination, filled with the artistry and delight that we know and love so well from Press Here and Mix It Up! But on this journey, prepare to leap headlong into a completely new dimension: emotion. Connecting not only to the mind but also to the heart, this dot expresses an extraordinary sense of humor, fear, joy, and more as it pushes, lurches, wiggles, and slides its way through—and even off!—the pages of this glorious companion to Press Here and Mix It Up!
30. Snowflake Day! (Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood)
by: Becky Friedman, Jason Fruchter Release date: Sep 30, 2014 Number of Pages: 14 Find in Library Read Review |
It’s Snowflake Day in the Neighborhood of Make-Believe, and Daniel Tiger has a special part in the Snowflake Day show. But when the lights go out and it looks like the show won’t go on, it’s up to Daniel to light up the day!
© 2014 The Fred Rogers Company.
Best Selling Books for 5 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science, Nature & How It Works
- Sports & Outdoors
- Computers & Technology
Recommended Books for 5 year olds:
- Action & Adventure
- Activities, Crafts & Games
- Animals
- Biographies
- Classics
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Early Learning
- Education & Reference
- Fairy Tales, Folk Tales & Myths
- History
- Holidays & Celebrations
- Humor
- Literature & Fiction
- Mysteries & Detectives
- Religions
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Science, Nature & How It Works
- Sports & Outdoors
- Computers & Technology
Best Selling Early Learning Books for:
- 1 Year Olds
- 2 Year Olds
- 3 Year Olds
- 4 Year Olds
- 5 Year Olds
- 6 Year Olds
- 7 Year Olds
- 8 Year Olds
- 9 Year Olds
- 10 Year Olds
- 11 Year Olds
- 12 Year Olds
- Teen & Young Adults
Recommended Early Learning Books for:
- 1 Year Olds
- 2 Year Olds
- 3 Year Olds
- 4 Year Olds
- 5 Year Olds
- 6 Year Olds
- 7 Year Olds
- 8 Year Olds
- 9 Year Olds
- 10 Year Olds
- 11 Year Olds
- 12 Year Olds
- Teen & Young Adults
Last updated: Monday, December 5, 2016 4:15 AM