Books published by publisher Gakken

The Play Smart secret is: Learning should be fun. The fun-first activities in Play Smart wipe-off workbooks are thoroughly engaging for preschoolers, and help to promote fine motor coordination, creativity, and reasoning skills.The 60+ engaging puzzles in Play Smart Colors, Shapes, and Patterns include matching games, mazes, coloring pages, and more. Wipe-off pages, erasable markers, and irresistable activities make for hours of entertainment. The books are designed so that the challenges get harder as you move through the book, helping to build a sense of independence and confidence. Lively, adorable art, practice worksheets (for letter- and number-writing), and doodle pages complete the package. These award-winning, kid-tested activities have won over millions of fans around the world.

What's the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun!Fun-first activities—an engaging mix of picture puzzles, number games, mazes, and crafts—keep kids thoroughly entertained while they build reasoning skills, vocabulary, and creativity. Notes to parents on every page offer suggestions for enhancing school skills and life skills as kids play their way through the book. The activities get progressively harder, helping little ones to build a sense of confidence as they progress. And more than 80 adorable stickers add to the excitement: kids choose a reward sticker after finishing each challenge. A wipe-off activity board completes the package.

What’s the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun!Gakken’s Play Smart workbooks and classes have been helping children from ages 2-5 to develop important skills for more than 30 years in Japan. Now this unique, tried-and-true creative learning system is available in North America. Play Smart Vehicle Picture Puzzlers 3+ is packed with 70 fun-first, thoroughly engaging, vehicle-based activities designed to enhance reasoning, problem-solving, and fine motor skills. Children ages 3 and up will have a great time playing matching and counting games, solving mazes, tracing, drawing, and more. The activities build on one another throughout the book, helping children to become more confident and independent as they go. Notes to parents on every page provide helpful directions for extending the learning. Plus, this unique workbook comes with 80+ stickers which are used in certain activities, and as rewards for a job well-done.

What’s the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun!Gakken’s Play Smart workbooks and classes have been helping children from ages 2-5 to develop important skills for more than 30 years in Japan. Now this unique, tried-and-true creative learning system is available in North America. Play Smart Animal Picture Puzzlers 3+ is packed with 70 fun-first, thoroughly engaging, animal-based activities designed to enhance fine motor skills, focus, creativity, and problem-solving. Children ages 3 and up will have a great time playing matching games, solving mazes, tracing, counting, and more. The activities build on one another throughout the book, helping children to become more confident and independent as they go. Notes to parents on every page provide helpful directions for extending the learning. Plus, this unique workbook comes with 80+ stickers which are used in certain activities, and as rewards for a job well-done.

What's the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun!Fun-first activities—an engaging mix of counting games, writing, picture puzzles and paper crafts—keep kids thoroughly entertained while they build problem-solving, early math, and pre-reading skills. Notes to parents on every page offer suggestions for enhancing the learning as kids play their way through the book. The activities get progressively harder, helping preschoolers to build a sense of confidence as they progress. And more than 80 adorable stickers add to the excitement: kids choose a reward sticker after finishing each challenge. A wipe-off activity board completes the package.

Children learn when they're having fun. The Play Smart fun-first philosophy has proven hugely successful with children, parents, and educators.Play Smart Preschool Prep includes more than 60 engaging puzzles that help to hone preschoolers' problem-solving skills, pre-reading, early math skills, and fine motor coordination. Wipe-off pages, and a set of different challenges for every activity make for hours of entertainment. The books are designed so that the activities--from mazes and matching games to dot-to-dots and counting games--get harder as you move through the book, helping to build a sense of independence, and confidence. Lively, colorful art, an erasable marker, practice worksheets, and doodle pages complete the package. These award-winning, kid-tested activities have won over millions of fans around the world.

What's the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun!Fun-first activities—an engaging mix of writing, drawing, cutting and pasting, mazes and more—keep kids thoroughly entertained while they build focus, problem-solving, and fine motor skills. Notes to parents on every page offer suggestions for enhancing vocabulary and social skills as kids play their way through the book. The activities get progressively harder, helping little ones to build a sense of confidence as they progress. And more than 80 adorable stickers add to the excitement: kids choose a reward sticker after finishing each challenge. A wipe-off activity board completes the package.

The Play Smart fun-first philosophy (which has proven hugely successful with children, parents, and educators) is: Children learn when they're having fun. Play Smart Dot-to-Dot includes more than 60 engaging puzzles that help to hone preschoolers' counting skills and enhance fine motor coordination. Wipe-off pages, and a set of different challenges for every activity make for hours of entertainment. The books are designed so that the puzzles get harder as you move through the book, helping to build a sense of independence, and confidence. Lively, colorful art, an erasable marker, practice worksheets, and doodle pages complete the package. These award-winning, kid-tested activities have won over millions of fans around the world.

What’s the Play Smart secret? Learning should be fun!Gakken’s Play Smart workbooks and classes have been helping children from ages 2-5 to develop important skills for more than 30 years in Japan. Now this unique, tried-and-true creative learning system is available in North America. Play Smart Animal Picture Puzzlers 4+ is packed with 70 fun-first, thoroughly engaging, animal-based activities designed to enhance fine motor coordination, focus, early math and problem-solving skills. Children ages 4 and up will have a great time solving mazes, comparing quantities, counting, drawing, writing, and more. The activities build on one another throughout the book, helping children to become more confident and independent as they go. Notes to parents on every page provide helpful directions for extending the learning. Plus, this unique workbook comes a wipe-off activity board, and 80+ stickers which are used in certain activities, and as rewards for a job well-done.

Super simple cutting and folding projects give preschoolers instant gratification, and hours of fun!Sixty-four printed sheets feature clever, adorable projects marked with simple cutting and folding instructions—no more than three steps for each project. Children as young as two years old can transform an elephant into a teapot; make a lion roar; or turn printed flower paper into a pretty bouquet. The activities are fun and engaging--and also help to build focus, encourage children to follow sequential directions, and enhance fine motor skills. The unique paper crafts in this book keep preschoolers thoroughly engaged, ane learning important skills while they play.

Irresistable starter art gets little ones scribbling, and thinking creatively. Easy wipe-clean pages make for endless entertainment.Toothless monsters, flower stems, sheep without wool, and an empty ocean are just some of the scenes awaiting scribbles, squiggles, lines, dots, and artful dashes. Every delightful wipe-off page features inviting artwork in need of some simple embellishment. The pictures are designed to get little ones to use their imagination--and their fine motor muscles. Wipe-off pages hold crayon beautifully--and then wipe clean with a tissue or paper towel so little artists can make their mark again and again.

Gakken's Play Smart GINORMOUS WORKBOOK contains best-selling, research-based, engaging early learning activities to help children develop early learning readiness, fine-motor, and higher thinking skills plus a true love of learning today -- and into the future.Gakken’s Play Smart GINORMOUS Workbook pairs our research-based, engaging early learning activities with our “Learning should be fun” philosophy for hours of productive and smart play time while developing thinking skills, observation abilities, focus, confidence, and a love of learning. The Play Smart GINORMOUS Workbook is packed with over 350 pages of fun-first activities including tracing, mazes, matching, sorting, puzzles, dot-to-dot and more. Your child will have hours of fun and they'll be learning and sharpening their skills without even realizing it. Each activity comes with tips for parents to help enhance the experience along with alternate ways to play each game. The Play Smart GINORMOUS Workbook includes 400 adorable stickers, a suitable-for-framing completion certificate and a unique "I DID IT!" crown that allow you to reward your little one for a job well-done and to encourage additional learning.