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Babies and toddlers will delight in the wonderful world of classical music with this series that features a sound button on every spread. Aah, Bach . . . Follow along as a snake plays Bach's Suite No.3 on flute . . . a hippo plays Cello Suite No.1 on cello . . . three tigers play the Brandenburg Concerto No.3! These are just three of the wonderful spreads that go for Baroque as they introduce young children to the music of Bach. With bright colours and silly animal characters playing orchestral instruments, kids will giggle along as they push the sound buttons on every spread over and over. What a wonderful way to learn about Bach! BONUS: The final spread features fun facts about Johann Sebastian Bach as well as a musical instrument search and find!

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With Little Genius books, curious kids can learn and laugh while being captivated by the world around them. With super-simple concepts about the sun, planets, comets, and more, each spread features the wonderful illustrations of Mattia Cerato along with rhyming text that delights while it instructs. With the sun as your guide, meet Mercury, Venus, Earth, and the rest of the planet gang, as you travel further and further to the outer reaches of the solar system. Each planet has one funny identifying feature that will help kids remember a fascinating fact about it. For instance, Earth is wearing goggles. Why? Because it has lots and lots of water! Little Genius Solar System reads like a fun story, making it the perfect introduction to our night sky.

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This playful and bright introduction to yoga aimed directly at the toddler set features fun, rhyming text and photographs of children from ages 1 to 5 doing easy poses that youngsters will love learning. Each pose featured, from Mountain pose, Tree pose, and the Warrior poses to Cobra pose, Happy Baby pose, the Lotus position, and more, is perfect for little arms, legs, and bodies! Strong Like a Mountain will help children stretch their bodies and their minds while sparking their interest and imagination.

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A fantastic and age-appropriate journey around the world for our youngest explorers! With super-simple concepts about continents, animals, oceans, countries, the world's natural wonders, and man-made marvels, Little Genius World Atlas delights as it entertains. With Earth as your guide, little learners are introduced to the oceans, each continent, and even ecosystems with wonderful illustrations and gentle, rhyming text. Each continent features a fact or two along with fun illustrations of the animals and attractions that make the continents distinctive.

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Everyone loves and remembers nursery rhymes from their childhood. Each book in this series begins with a classic nursery rhyme, and then expands on it with lots of silly fun. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star is one of the most recognizable and beloved nursery rhymes of all time. And while there are countless versions available in book form, this magical edition turns the rhyme into an unforgettable story young children will come back to again and again. When four kittens wish to be closer to Twinkle, they devise different contraptions to launch them up, up, up in the sky! When their ideas don't work, the kittens and Twinkle learn a valuable lesson about what it means to be a friend. At once hilarious and endearing, this book will give children the giggles as they read and re-read this new classic.

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A reddish brown horse with black mane and tail is a bay. Other colors for horses include chestnut, black, and gray. Children love horses, and with super-simple concepts about breeds, colors, features, and more, this book is the perfect introduction for our little learners. Each spread features a simple fact about what horses eat, where they live, how to take care of them, and what different horses do, accompanied by delightful illustrations of beautiful horses in action. The rhyming text makes this book so awesome to read and re-read, and the Fun Facts include extra information for when kids want to know more!

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With bright, energetic illustrations, and simple, rhyming text, Visiting the Orchestra follows Emma and John as they visit an orchestra during practice. They hold their ears as the musicians tune their instruments, watch in awe as the conductor takes her place at the head of the orchestra, and listen as each instrument gets a chance to play . . . culminating in a tap of the baton . . . What’s that sound everyone hears? The most lovely melody fills the hall. And it’s music to our ears!

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Architects are artists and scientists as well. They design the spaces where we shop, learn, visit, and dwell. From drawing houses with crayons to building with Legos and blocks, children are born architects! And Little Genius: Architecture is a child's first look at the incredible work that architects do. Each spread features one or more amazing buildings or architectural feats, such as the Taj Mahal, the Chrysler Building, the Great Wall of China, the Parthenon, the Sydney Opera House, the Great Mosque of Djenne, and more!!! Also, a few terms such as Gothic and Art Deco are introduced without weighing down the lilting, rhyming text. With dynamic artwork by illustrator and architect Jomike Tejido, children will enjoy reading and re-reading this educational and fun book!

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We wonder if there will be too many apples to count. Will there be hundreds? Thousands? We can't count that amount! With bright, energetic illustrations, and simple, rhyming text, Math Adventure at the Apple Orchard follows Maya and John as they visit an apple orchard. There, they find shapes in the orchards, count apples, add and subtract, weigh their baskets, pay for their apples, and more. Written with preschool curriculum vocabulary words in mind (sorting, numbers, geometry, measuring, money, calendar, and more, each page features one or more math term, all of which are defined on the last spread.

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Celebrate our libraries with this adorable first words storybook! Libraries are vibrant and vital centers of community where people go to connect to the world, technology, information, stories, and each other. They're also often the most fun place to be when at school! This book encourages an early love for "going to the library" with delightful illustrations and a fun, rhyming story about one child's first trip. When Peter wants to know more about dinosaurs, his best friend, Lara, knows just where to go. With card in hand, they head for the library where they find just the right book. Then, it's story time!!! Each spread features one or more library vocabulary words such as alphabetical, author, barcode, catalog, database, scanner, nonfiction, and more--with their definitions on the last spread. Get kids excited about reading, researching, self-directed exploration, and more with Let's Go to the Library!

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This rhyming picture book with illustrations from the award-winning Patrick Corrigan, follows a young girl on her first trip to Dizzytown. Her friend shows her around, pointing out all the hard workers. Unfortunately for the residents of Dizzytown, it's the teachers who put out fires, while sanitation workers take sick people to landfills, musicians fly airplanes, and more! Each time, the young girl exclaims, "Wait! What??" and explains who are the right people for the jobs. Children will love pointing out the discrepancies in Dizzytown, where children go to work, trucks are driven by punk rock bands, and houses are built by pumpkin-pie bakers, and delight in the young girl's frustration that everything in Dizzytown is just very wrong!

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It's an exciting day at mission control. In 10 short seconds, a rocket is launching into space, and we get to count along! From 10 giant screens and 9 rows of engineers, all the way to 3 rocket boosters, 2 thumbs up, and 1 soaring rocket, little explorers will delight counting down while also counting the fun things to find on each spread. With Natalie Briscoe's quirky illustrations and the fun, rhyming text, this book is an out-of-this-world read-along children will return to again and again.

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Noah, I want you and your family to fill the ark with two of every kind of animal in the world! And so begins the story of Noah and his heroic efforts to build an ark to save two of each of the world’s animals before a giant flood washes everything away! This modern retelling will fascinate young children while providing them with the basics of the timeless tale complete with the themes of faith and God’s undying love for all of creation. It’s a story kids will want to experience over and over again.

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A child’s fascination with dinosaurs is unparalleled, and who doesn’t know a small kid who can’t say her own last name, but will correct you if you mispronounce diplodocus? Little Genius Dinosaurs is the book for those kids. Featuring enjoyable, rhythmic text; fun facts; and a new dinosaur on every spread, this is the perfect first book for the curious archaeologist in every child.

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Everyone loves and remembers nursery rhymes from their childhood. Each book in this series begins with a classic nursery rhyme, and then expands on it with lots of silly fun. Itsy Bitsy Spider is a classic nursery rhyme that children have been reading and enjoying for at least a hundred years. And even though there are other versions available in book form, this enormously entertaining edition turns the rhyme into a frolicking adventure featuring Itsy and many of his insect friends. Follow along as, once the sun comes back up for Itsy Bitsy, his caterpillar friends play leap frog in the trees, ladybugs play hide-and-seek, a beetle builds a swimming pool for his ant friends, and busy bees jump rope with a worm. There are giggles a-plenty as each turn of the page offers new surprises and super-silly situations. Share this re-imagining of the classic nursery rhyme with your children and make memories to last a lifetime.

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