This brilliant adaptation of Lewis Carroll's famous grown-up poem will knock the socks of both parent readers and preschooler listeners. The magic of Carroll's verse is that its nonsense words tell a compelling tale, though you find you can't retell the same tale in "sense" words when it is over. Enter Christopher Myers, who recasts the "slithy toves" and mome raths outgrabe" into a hot summer, urban street scene and ...
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This book, which like Wiesner's earlier award-winning books contains no text, might be a bit challenging for the typical four-year-old to decipher, but it seems well-suited for older children with a lot of imagination. The story begins with a boy exploring creatures at the beach. A big wave blindsides the boy and tosses an old underwater camera onto the beach. The boy takes the camera to a photo-developing store ...
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You could easily think that a collection of haikus is well beyond the ken of our adored preschool set. You could also be wrong. Yes, this is a book you should keep around on the shelves for some grade school project when your much-grown former preschooler is writing her own haikus. But yes, this is also a book you will dive into right now, long before your tiny one can ...
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A Special Note from Author Ron Van Der Meer I have been working on an extremely involved online Maths project, called Maths-Whizz.com, for the past 6 years through Flash animated short movies making maths fun and understandable. The system teaches kids from 4 to 16 maths in schools and online at home very successfully but I missed the pop up world and playing with paper. At ...
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You of course remember this fabulous tale, but if you haven't read it in a few decades, you may be thinking it was dark or scary. It's not -- or at least we haven't met a child who thinks so. Mr. Sendak brilliantly recognizes that children are often far more comfortable with the wild things that stomp around their imaginations, roaring their terrible roars and gnashing their terrible ...
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Steve Jenkins (What Do You Do with a Tail Like This ?) returns with another inventive, involving picture book--this time inviting young readers to see how they measure up against a variety of different animals (represented in colorful, cut-paper collages at actual size). Each spread of Actual Size presents a new animal or two for readers to check out, along with a few interesting facts and physical ...
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This is not a story "about sibling issues" but is nevertheless perhaps our very favorite picture book on the theme. It's about what a little girl's fondest wish-come-true would look like. Margaret Barnstable wishes on a star - wishes to sail the sea on her own ship with "someone nice for company." When her dream comes true for a day, who does she choose as a companion? Her best friend? ...
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We all probably have, somewhere upon our shelves, a weighty anthology of poetry that we last opened when studying for a college English exam. Now that we are parents, it has crossed our minds that our rhyme and rhythm-loving children might enjoy hearing some of those poems that we struggled to parse in English 101. But how to choose? Which ones, of the many thousands? We are lucky indeed that ...
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Okay, we admit it: we think this elegant volume makes a wonderful gift, but we mean that is really a gift for parents. But preschoolers themselves will love it too, and sharing it with their particularly lucky parent will forge such a bond! This is a witty and wacky (and occasionally slightly wicked) collection of nonsense poems, including such masters of the genre as Edward Gorey, Lewis Carroll and Edward ...
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This tale tells just how far a little imagination can get you. Like Harold and his purple crayon, it zoomz off under the powerful engine of a little one's imagination, and in the vein of a certain Max in a certain wolfsuit, it also shows you how that same imagination can bring you safely right back home again. The perfect combination, especially for a child being tucked into bed. This ...
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One of the truest joys of parenting, we find, is the joys of eavesdropping. Our kids are preschoolers, not teenagers, so what we are privileged to hear when they are chatting alone with their friends and siblings is almost inevitably darling. The stories they tell, the leaps of imagination they take, the affection they express - they are all so exquisite. This book reads just like a listen around an ...
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This whopper of a book is just the answer for an entire rainy season's worth of cries of "I'm bored!" The author of some of our most treasured books (including My Friends and the old standard Everyone Poops) offers almost 400 pages geared toward getting your kids to imagine, draw and create. There are pictures for them to finish, scenes for them to sketch out, visualization ...
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This much-loved story makes a compelling case for the power of imagination. It also frees you from thinking that you need to give or make or buy all sorts of things to spark your little one's imagination. In the case of Harold, whatever he needs, he creates for himself, all with the help of one magic purple crayon. You've got a worn waxy stub of any color at all in ...
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While the detail in this story may be beyond the ken of your preschooler (not to mention you - this is head-spinning stuff!), this pop-up version of the greatest tea party of them all charms even when the plot confounds. So, when your little host can be persuaded to put down the tea pot and climb onto the sofa for a read, do pull out this magnificent volume. The page ...
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We are especially fond of alphabet books that reward careful observation of the world around us, finding letters in grand vistas and tiny mosaic detail. Instead of cityscapes, however, this absolute gem of a book turns to the natural world to inspire your preschooler (and your much older child, even the all grown up one deep inside your own mind) to look closely at his immediate world. The vistas are ...
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There is no better way to teach a powerful lesson about caring for the earth and our environment, and there is absolutely no more fun way to do it than this: pull your little one onto your lap and tell her the story of the Lorax, the allegory about the greedy Once-ler who decimated his gorgeous corner of the world by clear-cutting Truffula Trees for his mass-market Thneeds. Teach her ...
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