Books published by publisher Zip Publishing/The Educational Publisher

My First Slide-Out Book of Numbers is designed by early childhood experts to teach your child to count to ten. Pull the tab and the picture magically changes for double the fun. My First Slide-Out Book of Numbers is part of the award winning Early Start Active Reading series. Active Reading prompts at the bottom of each page help you engage your child in conversation in order to promote language and cognitive development.

AWARD WINNING BOOK! The distinguished recipient of the DR. TOY BEST PICK New Children's Products Award. This board book is one of many award winning Early Start titles. This book is designed by early childhood experts to teach your child how and where the most common fruits grow. Your child will love the the ten fun and unique flip-flaps. The book is part of the Early Start Active Reading series designed by Early Childhood experts with prompts for parents and caregivers to engage the child in conversation and promote cognitive development.

In this beautifully illustrated book readers will following a young boy's quest to remove a splinter and meet the animals he chooses to help. His first thoughts are to summon large, powerful animals. However, when this does not work, he almost gives up. The solution is finally given to him by an unexpected source and teaches a valuable lesson about problem solving.

"Smart Alec" books are more than just workbooks. Developed by teachers in collaboration with administrators, the "Smart Alec" books for grades Pre-K through 5 are designed to reinforce fundamental skills taught at each grade level. This series provides easy-to-use reinforcement techniques to review essential skills and provide your children with opportunities to explore skills for an upcoming grade. Mastering these skills will make learning easier for your children, and this unique format provides parents with many additional opportunities to use the books. This entry in the "Smart Alec" series is Writing for Grade Pre-K, and is National Standards Compliant.

Peanut and Newman are two very smart pieces of fruit that seem to find trouble at every turn. They also have very big hearts which is why they can never leave a fellow comrade behind. If someone's in trouble no problem is too big or too small for them to solve. Sometimes, however, they get themselves into a jam and they need help from their friends. The Banana Chronicles is a series of books that tries to look at a situation from many vantage points. Instead of just seeing things from one perspective Peanut and Newman try to put themselves in everyone's shoes, rich or poor, black or white. These "cats" don't judge and they ask that you don't either. So sit back and enjoy the ride because these books are non-stop action from start to finish.

An award winning book, this delightful story of a green snake with a yellow belly and a red tongue is the perfect book for any beginning reader. Using phonetics symbols, it enable small children to pronounce words, the beginning of the reading process. In poetry format, it encourages children to turn the page to read the next rhyme. The realistic eye-candy illustrations are by Cody Sims. Activity pages also further the learning and fun. Dr. Michelle O'Malley, leading phonetics and linguistics professor, advised on this book and recommends it. Zoos across the county praise this book as it contains important snake facts.

"Smart Alec" books are more than just workbooks. Developed by teachers in collaboration with administrators, the "Smart Alec" books for grades Pre-K through 5 are designed to reinforce fundamental skills taught at each grade level. This series provides easy-to-use reinforcement techniques to review essential skills and provide your children with opportunities to explore skills for an upcoming grade. Mastering these skills will make learning easier for your children, and this unique format provides parents with many additional opportunities to use the books. This entry in the "Smart Alec" series is Writing for Grade 4, and is National Standards Compliant.

Smart Alec" books are more than just workbooks. Developed by teachers in collaboration with administrators, the "Smart Alec" books for grades Pre-K through 5 are designed to reinforce fundamental skills taught at each grade level. This series provides easy-to-use reinforcement techniques to review essential skills and provide your children with opportunities to explore skills for an upcoming grade. Mastering these skills will make learning easier for your children, and this unique format provides parents with many additional opportunities to use the books. This entry in the "Smart Alec" series is Math Computation for Grade 4, and is National Standards Compliant.

Book 1 of 12 in the Youngbloods Mysteries Series, this pre-teen book has not one, but two mysteries for fourth, fifth and sixth graders to solve. Balam appears to be a boy in a jaguar costume, but when he does things like disappear off the top of the Bearded Man Temple, Andy Jamison wonders if Balam really could be the 200-year-old jaguar king he claims to be. With a hook at the end of each chapter, readers experience wildlife, culture and language while immersed in the Maya culture within the jungle surrounding Chich'en Itza in Mexico. Activity pages further their learning experience along with Maya and Spanish words with pronunciation and definitions. The exciting illustrations are by Cody Sims. Ben Thomas, Director of Programming at the Archeology Institute of America, was the main advisor on this book which contains his comments as well as those of other archeologists and anthropologists.

AWARD WINNING BOOK. Distinguished recipient of the DR. TOY BEST PICK CHILDRENS PRODUCTS award and one of many award winning Early Start titles. This pull-tab book about opposites will delight your child with illustrations that MAGICALLY change when you pull the tab to the opposite of what you see. YOU CAN T FIND A MORE FUN AND DURABLE BOOK ABOUT OPPOSITES. A clean boy is ready to eat spaghetti and meatballs. Pull the tab and now his plate is empty, but his face is dirty. Others examples such as up/down, in/out, and dry/wet are just some of the fun opposite relationships that your child will learn about in this book. Part of the Active ReadingTM Series designed to enhance language development and build vocabulary. Use the search term EARLY START BOOKS in order to find more Early Start award winning books on Amazon.