While colorful birds perch in the trees, heart-shaped leaves flutter in the breeze. This innovative board book uses a series of colorful spreads with sliding discs to introduce young children to basic shapes. Children can look at the animals in each scene, listen to the gently rhyming text, and trace their fingers over the nature-inspired shapes. The books are robust and fun, perfect for encouraging a lively, interactive reading experience for children and adults, and developing young childrens’ motor skills, a key element in Montessori learning. In addition, the books encourage further learning with discussion of the habitat of each animal.

"Whether you need dungeon vermin or a world-shaking personification of evil, the Tome of beasts has it. Here are more than 400 new foes for your 5th edition game--everything from tiny drakes and peculiar spiders, to demon lords and ancient dragons."--Back cover.

The shape of the moon, the shapes of the stones all around. Let's see what other shapes we can discover in nature.

Tasty shapes to crunch and munch. Let's all eat some shapes for lunch!

-Ideal for preschool kids. An imaginative early learning series, covering essential preschool topics. -Flaps to open on every page and pictures enhanced with shiny foil. -A hands-on way to explore first concepts.

Part of DK's successful My First board book series, My First Shapes features images with clear labels and was created with a preschooler's stage of educational development in mind. Preschoolers can learn about all different shapes in My First Shapes, an informational board book featuring images of triangles, rectangles, stars, hearts, and more, and including a toy train scene with all the My First Shapes called out. The bold, beautiful images are labeled clearly, promoting early learning and language skills, and the pages are filled with the distinctive, iconic design of DK's My First series. Made with toddlers ages 0-2 in mind, the book's sturdy format is ideal for small hands to hold and carry. Whether read alone or with an adult, My First Shapes encourages independent learning as preschoolers get to know all the basic shapes.

Courtney Dicmas introduces babies to basic concepts with her award-winning charm and humour. In Opposites, interactions between animals with drastically different characteristics provides plenty of opportunities to discuss and make comparisons. Colours takes an original approach to the topic by representing popular colours through ocean creatures. Shapes cleverly demonstrates the way that different shapes appear in nature, through the outlines of animals, or through the negative space between them and their family members. How many birds can roost on a wire? Find out in the final book in the series: Numbers