Books with author Maurice Pledger

The colorful artwork of nature illustrator Maurice Pledger is paired with fun sticker activities in this engaging, hands-on sticker book. With a 120-page book packed with fascinating facts about dinosaurs and bugs, more than 300 reusable stickers, and a two-sided 22x16-inch poster, children will be eager to learn all about these amazing creatures and their habitats.

Maurice Pledger’s stunning artwork is brought to life with authentic animal sounds and adorable pop-ups. Noisy Nature: In the Ocean will delight children ages 3 and up for hours on end.Includes five pop-up panoramas:• Playful Dolphin joins her friends and chatters click, click, click!• Gentle Whale swims gracefully as his song echoes around!• Furry Seal races through the sea and barks hello!• Hungry Seagull spots a fish and then squawks and squeals!• Clever Otter munches on his meal and laughs with a happy squeak!

Join Oscar Otter on an adventure as he searches for a goldfish. Kids will love this charming new adventure by Maurice Pledger. Follow along with Oscar the otter as he decides to follow a goldfish. He loses track of the fish and then searches high and low to find him. Thankfully he makes friends along the way who help him, and he ultimately finds a whole shoal of goldfish to play with! Oscar Otter and the Goldfish has a surprise on every page, as young readers lift the flaps to discover the new friends Oscar makes.

Little Deer and his helpful mouse friend encounter chipmunks, insects, spiders, rabbits, lizards, snakes, and birds on this nature trail adventure. Each page is filled with Maurice Pledger's beautifully detailed illustrations, and includes a variety of touch-and-feel textures and a lift-the-flap, pop-up surprise. Small children can easily relate to the endearing animal characters, and this book teaches them about the importance of camouflage and why certain animals hide themselves in the woods. Questions on each page for children to answer reinforce what they've just learned or direct them to pick out certain elements in each picture. Like other titles in Maurice Pledger's Nature Trails series, Hiding in the Woods stimulates a child’s curiosity about the natural world.

Life isn't all it's cracked up to be for Daisy Duckling. When she hatches from her shell, she finds that she's all alone! Where did her family go? The brave little duckling embarks on a journey along the river and finds that she's not the only one who hatched from an egg — Sammy the Snake, Timmy the Turtle, and Casey the Crocodile all did too! In this age-appropriate adventure, readers find a surprise on every page and learn about the wonders they can expect to find along the river. Children will increase vocabulary, discover where animals come from, and get to know how different animals can come from a similar place.

Bobby Bear is on an adventure, looking for the source of the wild honey he can smell. He looks here and there and — well — everywhere, and bumps into various animal friends along the way. In this fun lift-a-flap journey, young readers travel along with Bobby Bear and see what pops up around every twist and turn! Bobby Bear and the Honeybees is a charming story full of captivating illustrations that children will love.

A natural best seller, this touch-and-feel adventure by Maurice Pledger is sure to inspire even the littlest readers to want to visit the nearest ocean or aquarium.Join Little Dolphin on an underwater adventure as he tries to find his family. The new friends he meets along the way offer all sorts of excitement! From scaly fish to a scary shark, Little Dolphin encounters all sorts of new creatures before he learns not to travel too far from his family and to pay attention, or else he will find himself lost again. In this age-appropriate adventure for children ages 3 and older, you’ll find a touchable experience on every page and learn a little about the wonders and dangers you can expect to encounter in the ocean. Furry, rough, soft, woolly, leathery, or velvety--increase vocabulary, explore sensory learning, and get to know how different each sea animal looks and feels.Nature Trails: In the Ocean lets you feel your way through the sea to meet the many different creatures that live there.

Shh . . . do you hear that? It's the scampering hooves of an antelope trying to avoid the clutches of a hungry cheetah! A male lion smells an intruder — ROAR! Curious kids can experience the amazing sights, and sounds!, of Africa in Sounds of the Wild: Safari, the magnificent new book from acclaimed illustrator Maurice Pledger. As they explore the Masai Mara, the Serengeti, and the Kalahari, kids will meet a menagerie of safari animals, including favorites like giraffes, elephants, and zebras as well as unusual critters like black mamba snakes, dung beetles, and goliath herons. Sounds of the Wild: Safari combines exciting animal sound effects with stunning pop-up panoramas and an informative animal field guide for a truly wild learning experience. Hey, who snorted? It wasn't me — it was the hippo!

The colorful artwork of nature illustrator Maurice Pledger is paired with fun sticker activities in this engaging sticker book. With a 120-page book packed with fascinating facts about all sorts of wild animals, more than 300 reusable stickers, and a two-sided 22x16-inch poster, children will be eager to learn all about these amazing creatures and their habitats.

The jungle is home to more living things than any other place on earth, from furry animals like tigers to soaring birds and buzzing insects. It’s a place of true beauty that will fascinate kids—especially when it’s brought to life by Maurice Pledger’s Jungle World! With more than 200 oversized stickers that kids can insert into Pledger’s stunning illustrations of jungle scenes, it’s easier than ever for them to learn what life is like in this amazing habitat. They’ll journey through the rain forest, traveling to the treetops in every shade of brilliant green. Drawn to the detailed illustrations of animals like parakeets and toucans, they’ll add their own butterfly and be surprised that even squirrels fly in the jungle when they investigate the extensive selection of stickers. In the tangle of branches stretching for miles above the jungle floor, they’ll learn about geckos, sloths, and fruit bats, and complete the scene with tree frog and lizard stickers. And on the jungle floor, they’ll find the tortoise and the jewel beetle, and stick a mouse into this inviting habitat. By the time they’re done, they’ll know more about the jungle than ever before.