Books like If You Were a Penguin
By Florence Minor
For the kid who waddles across the living room pretending to be an animal, this turns that game into a whole book. gentle, curious, and quietly informative
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.
A wide-eyed owl wakes up early and can't get back to sleep, so he explores the daytime forest for the first time, watching butterflies, wolf pups, and his very first rainbow.
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.
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.
A rhyming game of I Spy sends little eyes hunting through orchards and riverbanks for Tom Thumb, Bo-Peep, and other familiar fairy tale and nursery rhyme characters hidden in each picture.
The Cat in the Hat whisks Sally and Dick on a rhyming tour of outer space, unpacking facts about the sun, moon, planets, and astronauts along the way.
All the letters of the alphabet race each other up a coconut tree, chanting chicka chicka boom boom, until so many pile on that the whole tree tumbles them down.
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 little white rabbit hops through a spring meadow wondering what it would feel like to be as tall as a tree, as still as a rock, or as green as the grass around him.
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 trio of friendly horned monsters wiggle through their own bodies from horns to toes, naming eyes, ears, nose, and more while breaking into a silly dance.
A parade of baby animals learns words for everyday things — a ball, a dog, a moon — but every single one insists on calling it all MAMA instead.
