Books like Blue Goose
By Nancy Tafuri
For toddlers just discovering their colors, this turns a simple farmyard chore into a bright, hands-on lesson that feels like play. Cheerful, simple, sunny and busy, like a barnyard on a good day.
A big, friendly bear wanders through the woods noticing colors all around him — inviting little ones to spot matching colors of their own on every page.
Bold die-cut shapes stack and overlap page after page, transforming circles, squares, and triangles into nine recognizable zoo animal faces right before your eyes.
A small boy and a big friendly bear head off on a berry-picking adventure, paddling canoes and crossing bridges through Berryland in search of blueberries, blackberries, and strawberries for jam.
A tiny caterpillar hatches from an egg on a leaf and eats his way through days of the week and an amazing variety of foods, growing bigger as he prepares to become a butterfly.
Two kids stuck inside on a rainy day get an uninvited visitor — a tall cat in a striped hat who promises fun and games while their mother is away.
A single yellow dot invites the reader to press it, tap it, and tilt the book — and with each turn of the page, the dots multiply, scatter, and change color right before your eyes.
A bright, rhyming romp through a day in the life of birds — from the rooster's dawn crow to the owl's nighttime call — inviting little ones to cheep and tweet along.
A curious cub spends a day exploring the forest with his mama, noticing green leaves, blue jays, and brown trout along the way, until he finds a patch of red strawberries.
When Hen surprises Pig with an unexpected gift, Pig is so touched that he passes kindness along to Rabbit — starting a chain that ripples from animal to animal.
A boy imagines a very special house — one built entirely from his own head — where a turtle, a dead mouse, and an old lion can all move in, and nobody ever says stop.
A boy longs to catch the rainbow he spots outside his window, and imagines all the wonderful ways he could play with one of his own.
A hungry squirrel searches for the nuts he buried, poking around a nest of fledglings, Mr. Owl, Frog, Vole, Mole, a cave of bats, and the woodchopper's house along the way.
