Ages 1-5 with a grown-up
Choices and conversation
Start with Johnny Needs Help!, the first book in the series, for prediction, decision-making, and delightfully silly possibilities.
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Choose a playful decision-making story for a young child, an award-winning discovery book for ages 4-8, or an engaging story for a growing reader. Each begins with humor or surprise and invites children to notice, question, explain, and think for themselves.
8 Mom’s Choice Awards Books for ages 1-12 Designed for shared reading and discussion Direct links to each book
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Ages 4-8
Humor and discovery
Start with Does Your Nose Smell? for wordplay, sensory discovery, observation, and critical thinking.
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A growing-reader story
Start with Emma Makes Three for friendship, resilience, independence, and a more mature reading experience.
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Two books in one flip book
Does Your Nose Smell?
A playful exploration of smell, taste, flavor, language, and the everyday details children often pass by.
Two books in one flip book
Do Your Eyes Look Good?
Children explore sight and hearing through color, movement, sound, echoes, silence, and familiar experiments.
Two books in one flip book
Do Your Fingers Feel Good?
Physical sensations meet emotional feelings in a gentle exploration of the child’s outer and inner worlds.
Illustrated paperback
A Loaf of Bread
Fast rhymes and connected ideas show children how much they already know and how one question can lead to another.
Illustrated paperback
You Care
A playful journey from kindness and sharing into discoveries about hair, knees, the brain, and the body.
Illustrated paperback
Recycle Bin
Playful guessing introduces skin, sweat, body temperature, healing, feet, and the connections between them.
Illustrated paperback
In the Rain
Children explore perception, ideas, problem-solving, emotion, and the fascinating difference between brain and mind.
Story for growing readers
Emma Makes Three
A heartfelt story about disability, resilience, adaptation, independence, and genuine friendship.
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