Books in Basic Beginnings series

This is where the learning begins! Early Writing Practice teaches children the nine developmental strokes necessary for writing. As they trace straight, slanted, curved, and circular lines through fun activities, children will learn to write letters while also improving their hand-eye coordination, increasing pencil control, and learning to express creativity! --The six titles in the Basic Beginnings series are an essential and fun resource designed to nurture engaged learning for every child. Each book features 64 pages of colorful activities, mazes, and pictures, as well as three mini books to color, cut out, and share!

Fine Motor Skills includes five levels of colorful and stimulating activities that gradually challenge little fingers. Each activity promotes learning and fine motor control while covering fundamental lessons in colors, shapes, counting, and writing. As children color, trace, cut, and glue through the fun activities, they will improve their hand-eye coordination, writing control, and scissor and glue skills, while also being encouraged to express their creativity! --The six titles in the Basic Beginnings series are an essential and fun resource designed to nurture engaged learning for every child. Each book features 64 pages of colorful activities, mazes, and pictures, as well as three mini books to color, cut out, and share!

Following Directions improves children’s visual and auditory memory skills as you allow them to listen carefully to the directions then complete each activity in creative ways. This engaging resource makes following directions fun while improving children’s visual and auditory memory, letter and number recognition, and communication skills, while also encouraging creative expression! --The six titles in the Basic Beginnings series are an essential and fun resource designed to nurture engaged learning for every child. Each book features 64 pages of colorful activities, mazes, and pictures, as well as three mini books to color, cut out, and share!

This is where the learning begins! Counting & Sequencing introduces numbers 0 to 20 one at a time through pictures, rhymes, and stories, so children can master counting each number before moving on. The fun activities help children recognize and count numbers 0 to 20 while also developing their sequencing and critical thinking skills, early reading comprehension, and their ability to follow directions. --The six titles in the Basic Beginnings series are an essential and fun resource designed to nurture engaged learning for every child. Each book features 64 pages of colorful activities, mazes, and pictures, as well as three mini books to color, cut out, and share!

Understanding how things are the same and different is an important concept necessary to increase children’s visual perception skills. Same & Different introduces these concepts through simple directions and fine motor activities. The fun activities also help children develop stronger classifying skills, the ability to identify patterns and opposites, and strengthen their perception of missing objects, while also encouraging creative expression. --The six titles in the Basic Beginnings series are an essential and fun resource designed to nurture engaged learning for every child. Each book features 64 pages of colorful activities, mazes, and pictures, as well as three mini books to color, cut out, and share!

When the world is overwhelmed with Super Villains, time traveling conquerors, alien invaders, mythical beasts and robots bent on the total destruction of humanity . . . the Earth calls upon its Mightiest Heroes: THE AVENGERS! Discover how the Mighty team began as we read how Iron Man, Thor, the Hulk, Hawkeye, and Black Widow, and Captain America assembled to become Earth's mightiest heroes!

How did a raccoon with a rocket launcher, a talking tree, a bald green destroyer, the most dangerous woman in the universe, and an interplanetary policeman form the heroic space squad, The Guardians of the Galaxy? Join Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora, and their fierce leader Star-Lord as they band together in this origin storybook to fight through the cosmos and bring peace to a universe filled with threats and danger. This illustrated 48-page storybook introduces the fun ragtag band of Super Heroes in space, the Guardians of the Galaxy!

This stunning collaboration between a children's librarian and an NBA-player-turned-watercolor-artist introduces readers to a collection of baby animals doing what comes naturally―nursing. The luminous illustrations and lyrical text give children a glimpse into the worlds of 13 different mammal babies. Compelling childhood facts broaden the reader's knowledge about each species. Facts include: newborn bats consume their own weight in milk every day, and polar bear cubs are so small that they fit between the toes on their mama's paw. The overarching theme of breastfeeding inspires conversations about parenting, biology, habitats, survival, and more, making this book an engaging choice for young children as well as elementary school readers.