The relationship between mother and child is shown in this simple text with affectionate pictures of animal mothers caring for their young. 

An insert your own picture book™

Help your infant-preschool age child understand and feel proud of Mommy’s very important job AND keep Mommy present in your child’s mind while Mommy is away during training and deployment. Read, march, and bark along with our fun and simple descriptions and insert your own picture over those printed in the book to see Mommy at work as a United States Marine

An insert your own picture book™

Help your infant-preschool age child understand and feel proud of Daddy’s very important job AND keep Daddy present in your child’s mind while Daddy is away during training and deployment. Read, march, and bark along with our fun and simple descriptions and insert your own picture over those printed in the book to see Daddy at work as a United States Marine.

“ROAR! I’M A DINOSAUR. ROAR! NOTHING CAN STOP ME!” says a pointy white-toothed red dinosaur as he leaps into a pile of leaves. “DINOSAUR WINS!” he exclaims, triumphantly. He takes a bow and keeps on roaring. With Dinosaur versus a big slide, a bowl of spaghetti, talking grown-ups, bathtime, and… Read More

“One fell off and bumped his head. The Mama called the doctor. The doctor said, No more monkeys jumping on the bed.” Originally published as a picture book in 1989, this classic rhyming bedtime story about five ebullient monkey siblings now comes in many formats: an easy read-along paperback with… Read More

Can children, and in particular, boys, ever read too many dinosaur books? Certainly not. Dinosaurs are forever fascinating in both fiction and nonfiction. They may be monstrous and terrifying, but conveniently, because they’re extinct, we don’t need to worry about them showing up in the back yard or under the… Read More

When you open the first page of this innovative and adorable lift-the-flaps book, you see ears peeking out from under a quilt. You’ll notice purring printed on the page, too, so you’ll lift the quilt flap to see what’s under there. “Huh?” says the bleary-eyed red and white kitty, nestled… Read More

“In the light of the moon, a little egg lay on a leaf.” So begins one of the most beloved picture books of all times, right up there with The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats and Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak. (If… Read More

This rhyming, interactive, lift-the-flap, elongated board book introduces the Goodnight, Moon and Dear Zoo set to dozens of smiling animal parents and their little ones, all proudly displaying their singular tails. “Tails furry,” it begins, and indeed, the tail of the tiger cub is rendered in… Read More

You’ll have a basket of fun with this interactive lift-the-flap board book which will get your babies and toddlers joining right in. It starts, “I wrote to the zoo to send me a pet. They sent me an . . .” On the right hand page, there’s a yellow box… Read More

You’ll drool over the sharp color photos, taken of a cornucopia of real fruits and vegetables, carved, posed, or assembled to look like animals and objects. The food creatures, made from bananas, peppers, cherries, mushrooms, and more—there’s a list of the more than 75 ingredients on the copyright page—demonstrate a… Read More

Just right for little hands is a winsome series about gosling friends, with spare, irresistible watercolors on all-white square pages. Start with Gossie. about a small, yellow gosling, her orange bill always open in an expression of happy anticipation. Gossie likes to wear her bright red boots every day to… Read More

This gathering of more than 60 poems from the U.S., Great Britain, the Caribbean, and Australia into one big luscious book is just the ticket for little ones. The poems are as simple and chantable as nursery rhymes, like Aileen Fisher’s interactive verse which starts, “After my bath / I… Read More

Sensational full color animal paintings ensure this book will be a favorite at a bedside near you. First, you see a curly brown-haired tot in jammies playing with a big stuffed alligator and raccoon. Turn the page and there’s a massive, green, toothy crocodile papa, looking lovingly at his just-hatched… Read More

A chicken, racing across the barnyard, exhorts, “Hurry! Hurry!” “Coming! Coming!” bleats the goat, leaping over a fence. Across the green grass and under the blue sky, the ducks, cows, pigs, sheep, and a sheepdog cavort eagerly to the barn. There they encircle the nest of straw in the center… Read More

When should you start sharing books and stories with your children? As soon as they’re born. Some studies have shown that babies in utero respond to being read to, especially rhythmic and rhyming books like early Dr. Seuss. Here, then, is a board book for newborns who will appreciate the… Read More

While there are loads of wonderful Mother Goose collections out there, this oversized book will quickly become a home and classroom treasure with its 68 well-chosen verses and personable entourage of typical Wells bunnies, pigs, and cats, rendered in grand and colorful watercolors. Nursery rhymes are children’s earliest introduction to… Read More

“There was one little baby who was born far away. And another who was born on the very next day. And both of those babies, as everyone knows, had ten little fingers and ten little toes.” In a rhyming tribute to babies across the globe, interspersed with the title’s joyous… Read More