Early years: size, shapes and patterns
Capstone Global Library Ltd Measuring at Home
Book SynopsisYour house is packed with big things and small things and everything in-between. How tall is your refrigerator? How long is your bed? How wide is your door? Colourful photographs and interactive, rhyming text will have early learners ready to measure after reading this book.
£8.54
Dorling Kindersley Ltd Baby Touch and Feel Colours and Shapes
Book SynopsisHelps your baby discover all about colors and shapes with touch and feel textures. This book presents various textures such as twinkly, bumpy, scaly, silky, sandy, sticky and shiny. It is suitable for encouraging tiny fingers to explore and tiny minds to develop.
£5.99
Hachette Children's Group Can You Guess What I Am At the Seaside
Book SynopsisBright and bold photographs combine with simple text to make learning fun in this seaside question and answer book!Young children love to look at the details in the world around them. First, they are asked to look carefully at some familiar seaside plants animals and objects, and then translate what they know about the real world to what they read and see on the page. Can they guess what it is? Fun activity suggestions at the back of the book will help children, parents, teachers and carers to make the most of this book together.Ideal for children aged three and up. This book can be shared with a parent, carer or teacher, or used to help develop independent reading for pleasure.Titles in this series:AnimalsAt HomeNatureIn the RainforestAt the SeasideIn the StreetTable of Contents 1: How to use this book 1: Can you guess what I am? 1: Now try this ... 1: Glossary and index
£8.99
Hachette Children's Group Let's Look at... Opposites: Board Book
Book SynopsisPart of the Let's Look at... series of board books from best-selling author and illustrator Marion Deuchars, this book is the perfect introduction to the world of opposites.From up and down penguins to hot and cold aardvarks, the charming characters and bright colours will have your little ones exploring opposites in no time. Also available in the Let's Look at... series: Let's Look at...Numbers, Let's Look at...Shapes, Let's Look at...Animals and Let's Look at...Colours. Marion Deuchars is the award-winning and best-selling author of the Let's Make Some Great Art series. Other titles, also published by Laurence King, include Bob the Artist, Bob's Blue Period and Bob Goes Pop, beautiful picture books about friendship, art, dealing with emotions and working together.
£6.99
Charlesbridge Publishing,U.S. HandsOn Science Matter
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£7.59
Barefoot Books, Incorporated Will You Help Doug Find His Dog?
Book SynopsisSort through a sea of silly dogs to help Doug find his canine companion! Speaking directly to the reader, the interactive text by debut author Jane Caston prompts children to pat, tickle and call to the different dogs - a fun way to practice early math skills, like spotting similarities and differences, sorting and more! Bursting with goofy pooches, Carmen Saldaña's cheerful watercolor illustrations bring a fresh, modern look that will captivate young and old dog lovers alike. You'll laugh all the way to the hilarious surprise ending!
£7.59
Pajama Press Shape Up, Construction Trucks!
Book SynopsisDump Truck, Dump Truck Coming through! I spy a triangle—how about you? It's no secret that toddlers of any gender love big vehicles. Shape Up, Construction Trucks! uses rhyming verse and bright photographs to celebrate this enthusiasm in a unique take on conceptual shape books. Each spread highlights geometric shapes hiding in plain sight on excavators, bulldozers, cranes, and more. And after the toddlers have browsed the pages to their heart's content, a final note to parents offers enriching, age-appropriate activities to keep building their child's foundational learning skills. With repetitive, easy-to-remember verse from the award-winning author of Nat the Cat Can Sleep Like That, Victoria Allenby's Shape Up, Construction Trucks! is a highly visual shape book that digs deep. It earned starred reviews from School Library Journal, which called it, "clear, crisp, clean, and concise," and from Kirkus Reviews, which declared it was "sure to be a hit."Trade ReviewPraise for Shape Up, Construction Trucks! 2022 Mathical Book Prize Honor Book School Library Journal blogger Elizabeth Bird’s “2020 Math Books for Kids” selection 2020 CBC Books “52 Canadian picture books coming out in fall 2020” selection 2021 CCBC Best Books for Kids & Teens Selection ★ STARRED REVIEW “Storytime gets a kick in the pants with this jaunty combo of shapes and vehicles....Clear, crisp, clean, and concise—trucks and shapes have never before looked (or sounded) this good.”—Kirkus Reviews Starred Review ★ STARRED REVIEW “Large photos, bold type, and color-specific shapes serve as wonderful aids for young readers to strengthen their identification skills....Sure to be a hit with collections and storytimes.”—School Library Journal Starred Review “Allenby’s book is almost too good for its very simple premise….As the Kirkus review pointed out, you could do a whole storytime and sing this book to the “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star” song and make a whole construction production out of it!”—Elizabeth Bird, A Fuse #8 Production “Combining these two concepts – construction and shapes – is a novel idea and is effective at building vocabulary in both areas....Shape Up, Construction Trucks! is a simple book executed well.”—CM Magazine “This book covers so many different topics all in one book!...The book allows a parent to increase the difficulty of the book based on the readers reading level at the time….What I love the most about this book is at the end it gives parents different ways to read through the book. That is so helpful for parents who are often looking to get the most for their dollar on every item they purchase for a child.”—Youth Services Book Review “This fun picture books uses the interest that many children have in construction equipment to teach them about shapes....I always love picture books that combine fun and learning and this is a good example.”—Canadian Bookworm “A bright, bold, and fun story…With a terrifically clean and clever layout relying on rhyme and repetition, each page spread focuses on introducing one truck and one shape…Likely to be a hit during read aloud time and/or with readers who adore anything related to trucks or construction vehicles…”—Fab Book Reviews
£7.99
Award Publications Ltd My First... Shapes
Book SynopsisBright, colourful illustrations captivate little learners as they learn to name shapes and recognise shape words. This large format board book is ideal for first libraries, will entertain your little one and provide essential early learning fun.
£6.99
Child's Play International Ltd Now you See It! Ocean
Book SynopsisEarly readers will love discovering the animals hidden in this book. Just turn each page to make the vibrant patterns come to life! Perfect for developing early perception skills, stimulating the imagination - and simply having fun!
£6.99
Child's Play International Ltd Now you See It! Meadow
Book SynopsisEarly readers will love discovering the animals hidden in this book. Just turn each page to make the vibrant patterns come to life! Perfect for developing early perception skills, stimulating the imagination - and simply having fun!
£6.99
Arcturus Publishing Ltd Which One Is Different? Patterns
Book SynopsisThe very youngest readers will take great pleasure in discovering and identifying patterns, with this delightfully illustrated book by Kasia Dudziuk. The simple odd-one-out puzzles have been specially created to develop little children''s ability to differentiate and categorize objects. The activities will also reinforce their vocabulary, and build on their ability to describe the world around them. Kasia Dudziuk brings a sensitivity and warmth to all her work as a children''s book artist, and young readers and adults alike will love the positive and caring tone of these beautifully judged early learning books. Perfect to share with children from 2+.
£6.23
Phaidon Press Ltd We Are Shapes
Book SynopsisAs seen in Kirkus Reviews, Publishers Weekly, and School Library Journal A playful and clever board book about shapes and teamwork by a two-time Emmy-nominated children's content creator at Nickelodeon Pitch-perfect for a preschool audience, this board book introduces shapes and explores themes of teamwork and resilience. Square, rectangle, triangle, circle, squiggly and lumpy all work together to build a house. Each shape makes a unique contribution, and collectively they achieve something that they could not do alone. With an emphasis on interpersonal development, and visually inspired by the children's books created by Russian Constructivists, this is an artful, fresh take on the evergreen topic of shapes. This charming book teaches young readers everywhere that we are far stronger together than alone. Ages 2-4Trade Review 'As children are introduced to shapes, they are also taught interpersonal development.' – Publishers Weekly 'A quite sophisticated look at six shapes and shapes within shapes.' – Youth Services Book Review'Sleek and glossy to touch, bold and bright to behold. All the shapes look and act in different ways. Sometimes these differences work together, sometimes trouble arises. But in the end, as friends do, they come together to make something sweet.' – Bluestocking Thinking, Nicole Levesque'Great in a shapes themed story time.' – Jean Little Library'Perfect for little hands...[with] bright and colorful illustrations, your little one will learn all of the shapes... [as they] come together, to make a home!' – Dream Reader Kids, Hannah Van Winkle 'A sturdy board book fit for the smallest of readers.' - Kidslitislit, Ashley Bryson
£8.95
Penguin Random House Children's UK Early Learning: Colours and Shapes
Book SynopsisLearning to recognise and name colours and shapes in an important step in developing your child's vocabulary. This bright book is designed to help parents amuse, interest and at the same time teach their children vital early learning skills. Useful parent tips are included throughout to support the learning process.
£6.83
Anness Publishing Sticker Fun - Sizes
Book SynopsisThis title comes with over 50 reusable stickers. You can see which things are the same size, compare big and little things, thick and thin things, long and short things, wide and narrow things - and have fun spotting things that are completely the wrong size! You can find ten tiny seashells, seek out the same-size strawberries, decide whether the ball is too big for the racket, and other sticker-based challenges. It is full of action photographs of children, animals, food and toys that youngsters will enjoy looking at. Two pages of stickers include pretty flowers, bright marbles, cute kittens and playful puppies. The bright pictures interact with the simple text to help develop skills. It is a fun introduction to sizes for young readers, which entertains as well as educates. This themed word-and-picture book makes it really easy to learn. Packed with fun, bright photographs, stickers and games, it will teach young children all about different sizes. They will delight in finding the biggest doll, building the tallest tower, choosing the tiniest tomato, serving a party cake that is far too big for its plate, and all the other simple sticker puzzles.The stickers are reusable, so young readers will be able to complete the activities again and again, and use the stickers to create their own books, posters and games.
£5.02
Artbooks My smartphone. 34 years. Colours and shapes
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£6.12
Barefoot Books Ltd Sneak!
Book SynopsisExplore camouflage in this new addition to the Slide-and-See series that introduces budding scientists to fun STEM topics! This interactive board book features poetic riddles about camouflage animals around the world. Sturdy pages with tiered layers cleverly slide with each page turn to reveal answers. From classic camouflage critters like the chameleon to lesser known species like the owl butterfly, readers will delight in discovering the creatures in this interactive guessing game. Includes fact-packed educational notes about camouflage.Trade Review“This interactive board book will entertain any animal-loving youngster.” - School Library Journal“Camouflaged creatures, secret images and a guessing game of sorts make this title a preschooler magnet” – Good Housekeeping
£13.49
Kumon Publishing North America, Inc Let's Cut Paper!
Book SynopsisOur First Steps workbooks are designed for toddlers to practice motor control skills and develop spatial reasoning and problem-solving abilities. By using these workbooks, children will have while taking their first steps in preparing for school through sticking, pasting, coloring, and cutting and folding paper.Learning to safely use a pair of scissors is an important part of preparing for school. Let's Cut Paper is for children who have never used scissors before. Children will learn how to hold and control a pair of scissors and will advance from simple one-stroke cuts all the way to cutting complicated curved and zig-zagged lines and shapes. Ages 2 and up.
£6.99
Hinkler Books 24 Piece Kids Puzzle Animal Carnival
Book SynopsisPut together an adorable and eccentric scene of an animal carnival and see what you can find!This bright and bold 24-piece puzzle is the perfect activity for young children, made with larger pieces designed for their small hands. It’s a fun and engaging activity, and there’s a lot to talk about and spot once the picture is complete, including a lion riding a rhino, a giraffe wearing a sunhat, and a tiger carrying a backpack!
£14.03
Hinkler Books 24 Piece Kids Puzzle Under the Garden
Book SynopsisPut together an adorable and fun scene of a garden! This bright and cute 24-piece puzzle is the perfect activity for young children, made with larger pieces designed for their small hands. It’s a fun and engaging activity, and is perfect for framing once the picture is complete.
£14.03
Chronicle Books Woodland Wobble
Book Synopsis Bunny, hedgehog, squirrel, and bear are ready to pile up on a bright wooden mushroom—but watch out for the wobbles! You’ll need a steady hand as you stack woodland creatures in this fun single-player game. The die decides your next move, but it’s up to you to avoid toppling the tower. How many pieces can you stack before your woodland starts to wobble? A small acorn may be simple, but a big brown bear may not be so easy! Plus, with custom rules, you can create a unique twist each time you play. Suitable for ages 3+ and 2–4 players, it's time for a nature-themed balancing challenge with the Woodland Wobble Stacking Game from Petit Collage! Sorting and stacking these wooden game pieces develops fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, problem-solving, and balancing. Made using FSC materials and packaged using 75% recycled material printed with vegetable inks. Suitable for 3 ye
£11.40
Chronicle Books Touchthinklearn Shapes
Book SynopsisLearn basic concepts with these delightfully simple and ingeniously tactile, graphic board books, unlike anything in the market!
£13.49
Oxford University Press Progress with Oxford Shape and Size Age 34
Book SynopsisThis Progress with Oxford: Shape and Size Age 3-4 workbook will help your child to progress with learning about shapes and size while having fun so they will quickly learn the names of shapes, recognise their features and learn the vocabulary of measurement.The Progress with Oxford series has been created to help every child develop essential skills at home, with minimal help and support. Picture clues are used to show very young children how to complete activities, whilst reminder boxes, tips and advice support older children to become self-sufficient learners. A lively character accompanies your child through all the colourful and engaging activities, and fun stickers are included to reward their work. A handy progress chart at the end of each book captures their achievements, so you both know what to do next.You can find even more practical advice, free eBooks and fun activities to help your child progress on our award-winning website, oxfordowl.co.uk. Let''s get them flying!
£5.62
Hachette Children's Group Can You Guess What I Am In the Rainforest
Book SynopsisBright and bold photographs combine with simple text to make learning fun in this rainforest question and answer book!Young children love to look at the details in the world around them. First, they are asked to look carefully at some familiar rainforest plants animals and objects, and then translate what they know about the real world to what they read and see on the page. Can they guess what it is? Fun activity suggestions at the back of the book will help children, parents, teachers and carers to make the most of this book together.Ideal for children aged three and up. This book can be shared with a parent, carer or teacher, or used to help develop independent reading for pleasure.Titles in this series:AnimalsAt HomeNatureIn the RainforestAt the SeasideIn the StreetTable of Contents 1: How to use this book 1: Can you guess what I am? 1: Now try this ... 1: Glossary and index
£8.99
Readosaurus Press The Whole Alphabet is Having a Contest
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£12.34
Award Publications Ltd My First... Shapes
Book SynopsisBright, colourful illustrations captivate little learners as they learn to name shapes and recognise shape words. This sturdy board book, ideal for first libraries, toy boxes and pushchair outings will entertain your little one and provide essential early learning fun.
£6.23
Child's Play International Ltd Now you See It! River
Book SynopsisEarly readers will love discovering the animals hidden in this book. Just turn each page to make the vibrant patterns come to life! Perfect for developing early perception skills, stimulating the imagination - and simply having fun!
£6.99
Imagine That Publishing Ltd Circle & Square
Book SynopsisDiscover a tactile world of early learning in this first shapes book. Children will love to touch, feel and explore the pictures in this tactile novelty book. Raised and indented pictures throughout make a fun and interactive experience for little learners discovering their first shapes.
£5.99
Imagine That Publishing Ltd Little Ones Love Little Bunny
Book SynopsisLittle ones will love to lift each large, soft felt flap to discover which friendly animal is hiding underneath on each page. With five soft-to-touch flaps to lift, adorable animal illustrations by Damien Barlow, and a noisy animal word to shout out on each page there is plenty of interactive reading fun in this first storybook for little ones.
£7.59
Priddy Books My First 100 Numbers Colours Shapes
Book SynopsisWith refreshed imagery and design, My First 100 Numbers, Colours, Shapes is an exciting new addition to the First 100 series. Young children will learn some essential first words and pictures with this bright board book. There are 100 colour photographs to look at and talk about and 100 simple first words to read and learn, too. The pages are made from tough board for hours of fun reading and now in a new size that will be a great display on any child's bookshelf.
£6.99
Child's Play International Ltd Shapes
Book SynopsisFirst concepts can be wild, especially when animals are involved! Young children acquire and retain information more effectively when they are entertained and engaged. Vibrant, dynamic and funny, this is the perfect introduction to shapes for very young readers.
£5.99
Penguin Young Readers Group Who Sank the Boat Paperstar
Book SynopsisA charmingly funny read-aloud that asks an important question: Who sank the boat?Beside the sea, there once lived a cow, a donkey, a sheep, a pig, and a tiny little mouse. They were good friends, and one warm, sunny morning, for no particular reason, they decided to go for a row in the bay. Do you know who sank the boat? “The idea is funny, the pictures are splendid, and the easy text is just right for the very young.”—The New Yorker “A bright, brisk tale, simply told, illustrated by cheerful, comical pictures.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s BooksTrade ReviewPraise for Who Sank the Boat?“The idea is funny, the pictures are splendid, and the easy text is just right for the very young.”—The New Yorker“A bright, brisk tale, simply told, illustrated by cheerful, comical pictures.”—The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books
£7.95
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Pitter Pattern
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£17.09
Kar-Ben Copies Ltd Sammy Spiders Passover Shapes
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£7.44
Candlewick Press,U.S. This Is a Book of Shapes
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£8.99
Kumon Publishing North America, Inc Amazing Mazes
Book SynopsisOur UK Commonwealth Editions have been reexamined to see how they align with UK education standards. Kumon offers four titles that support the Early Years Learning Stage curriculum and four titles that support Key Stage 1 curriculum. Give your child an edge in education with Kumon Workbooks.
£8.54
Candlewick Press,U.S. Triangle
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£9.49
The Salariya Book Company The Robot is Square Babys First Book of Shapes
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£5.39
Galison Frank Lloyd Wright My First Shapes Crinkle Fabric
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£9.49
Candlewick Press,U.S. Big Little
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£9.08
Brighter Child Colors And Shapes By School Specialty Publishing
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£5.81
Candlewick Press,U.S. Bigger Bigger
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£12.99
Workman Publishing My First Brain Quest Shapes: A
Book SynopsisGive your child the best foundation to their education with this colorful and fun guide to shapes.My First Brain Quest: Shapes helps lay the foundation for pre-math skills, as children identify and describe shapes and their attributes. Questions help children build vocabulary and their understanding about the similarities and differences between shapes. Smart, colorful, grounded in educational principles, and reviewed by a panel of early learning experts, this board book introduces numbers in a fun, engaging way.
£7.99
Chronicle Books Round is a Mooncake
Book SynopsisA little girl''s urban neighborhood becomes a discovery ground for all things round, square, and rectangular in this lyrical picture book. Most items are Asian in origin, others universal: round rice bowls and a found pebble, square dim sum and the boxes that the pizzas come in, rectangular Chinese lace and a very special pencil case. Bright, whimsical art accompanies the narrative rhyme, and a short glossary adds cultural significance to the objects featured in the book. Perfect for read-alouds or one-on-one sharing.
£9.58
Candlewick Press,U.S. Circle
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£9.49
Tundra Books Petra
Book SynopsisThe humorous adventures of an irresistible little rock who finds herself in constantly changing circumstances, this stylish board book celebrates the power of believing in yourself.Petra is a little rock who believes she is a mighty mountain . . . until a dog fetches her for its owner, and she is tossed into a bird's nest. A mountain? No, Petra is now an egg! An egg of the world in a world of possibility. Until she's flung into a pond, and becomes an amazing island . . . and, eventually, a little girl's pet rock. What will she be tomorrow? Who knows? But she's a rock, and this is how she rolls!
£7.99
HarperCollins Trash Truck
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£13.78
Die Gestalten Verlag Fishing for Shapes
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£8.50
words & pictures I Like to Move Follow the Trail
Book SynopsisThe monkey is swinging through the trees, a pretty butterfly is fluttering in the sky and a deer is racing through the trees. Can you trace each felt pattern? Gently rhyming text explores 8 different animals and how they like to move, in this delightful board book. A felt layer between each page, encourages your little one to practice turning the easy-to-hold felt edges themselves, while little fingers can also trace the soft, felt patterns to engage with the story and improve hand-eye coordination. Bold, simple artwork is specially created with minimal colours and black lines to appeal to young children and babies.
£11.52
