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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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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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Babies and toddlers will delight in the wonderful world of classical music with this series that features a sound button on every spread. Press the buttons to hear the beautiful music of Vivaldi! Three flamingos dance to Spring from the Four Seasons. (Watch out for that high kick!) Four frogs synchronise swim to Summer. Two bats sway to the magical sounds of Allegro molto from the Concerto in C Major. These are just three of the wonderfully imaginative spreads that feature animals dancing, skating, and playing instruments in this wonderful introduction to the classical works of Antonio Vivaldi. Children will giggle over the silly illustrations as well as love pushing the sound buttons over and over. What a great way to learn about Vivaldi! The final spread features fun facts about Antonio Vivaldi as well as a colour search and find!

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So begins a delightful game of cat and mouse between a mum and her little son. Each time mum tries to put the child to sleep, he turns into a different imaginary character: a race car driver, a pirate, a superhero, and more! These characters have important jobs to do and don’t have time for sleep! And this little boy definitely does not want to go to sleep, no matter how tired he gets by the end of the book!

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With super-simple explanations about rain, wind, humidity, storms, the seasons, and more, Little Genius: Weather presents just the right amount of information for little learners. Children will love following along as a cute, smiling cloud guides them through simple weather events and explains what causes them using simple, rhyming text. Each spread also features a fun fact for kids who are ready to learn even more! It's the perfect gift for budding climatologists and meteorologists!

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