Books in First Learning series

The First Learning Things That Go Play Set includes a board book, featuring bright photographs of colorful vehicles, and 12 chunky pieces neatly packed in a plastic pocket.Help your child learn to identify all sorts of things that go with this engaging early-learning play set. Little ones will enjoy finding and matching the puzzle pieces with the photographs on the page, while learning vocabulary and developing fine motor skills. The chunky play pieces slot neatly into the spaces on the pages and can also be used as first word flash cards. The plastic pocket makes it easy to pack-up and put back on the bookshelf at the end of the day.Also available: Colors, First Words, Animals, Numbers, and Farm.

Learning React A hands-on guide to building maintainable, high-performing web application user interfaces using the React JavaScript library As far as new web frameworks and libraries go, React is quite the runaway success. It not only deals with the most common problems developers face when building complex apps, it throws in a few additional tricks that make building the visuals for such apps much, much easier. What React isn’t, though, is beginner-friendly and approachable. Until now. In Learning React, author Kirupa Chinnathambi brings his fresh, clear, and very personable writing style to help you understand the fundamentals of React and how to use it to build really performant (and awesome) apps. Build your first React app Create components to define parts of your UI Combine components into other components to build more complex UIs Use JSX to specify visuals without writing full-fledged JavaScript Deal with maintaining state Work with React’s way of styling content Make sense of the mysterious component lifecycle Build multi-page apps using routing and views Optimize your React workflow using tools such as Node, Babel, webpack, and others Contents at a Glance Chapter 1 Introducing React Chapter 2 Building Your First React App Chapter 3 Components in React Chapter 4 Styling in React Chapter 5 Creating Complex Components Chapter 6 Transferring Properties (Props) Chapter 7 Meet JSX–Again! Chapter 8 Dealing with State Chapter 9 Going from Data to UI Chapter 10 Working with Events Chapter 11 The Component Lifecycle Chapter 12 Accessing DOM Elements Chapter 13 Creating a Single-Page App Using React Router Chapter 14 Building a Todo List App Chapter 15 Setting Up Your React Development Environment Chapter 16 The End Chapter 17 (Web Edition) Working With External Data Chapter 18 (Web Edition) Creating a Sliding Menu Using React Motion Register your book at informit.com/register for free access to the Web Edition and two exclusive bonus chapters.

The First Learning Animals Play Set includes a board book, featuring bright photography, and 12 chunky pieces neatly packed in a plastic pocket.Help your child learn about farm animals, pets and animals from the wild with this engaging, early-learning play set. Little ones will enjoy finding and matching the puzzle pieces with the animals on the pages of the book, while also learning core vocabulary and developing fine motor skills. The book is full of recognizable photographic images of animals and big word labels. The chunky play pieces slot neatly into the spaces on the pages and can also be used as first word flash cards. The plastic pocket makes it easy to pack-up and put back on the bookshelf at the end of the day.Also available: Colors, First Words, and Numbers.

The First Learning Farm Play Set includes a board book, featuring bright photographs of farm animals and vehicles, and 12 chunky pieces neatly packed in a plastic pocket.Help your child learn to identify barnyard animals with this engaging early-learning play set. Little ones will enjoy finding and matching the puzzle pieces with the photographs on the page, while learning vocabulary and developing fine motor skills. The chunky play pieces slot neatly into the spaces on the pages and can also be used as first word flash cards. The plastic pocket makes it easy to pack-up and put back on the bookshelf at the end of the day.Also available: Colors, First Words, Animals, Numbers, and Things That Go.

An activity book which aims to introduce young children to two-and three-dimensional shapes. It is designed to be used with an adult's guidance and includes matching and sorting activities which help children develop the ability to recognize and discriminate between shapes. There are also practical suggestions for further activities and a shape game.

-- Given a handful of markers or crayons, no young child can resist these colorful activity books!-- Designed to be used with an adult's guidance, they are carefully planned to develop basic reading, writing, and math skills.-- First Learning provides children with hours of fun while developing vital skills such as concentration, hand control and visual awareness.

The First Learning Numbers Play Set includes a board book, featuring bright photography, and 12 chunky pieces neatly packed in a plastic pocket.Help your child learn to count, match numbers and objects, and recognize shapes with this engaging early-learning set. Little ones will enjoy finding and matching the puzzle pieces with the bright collections of objects and shapes on the pages of the book, while also learning core vocabulary and developing fine motor skills. The book is full of interesting and colorful photographic images and big word labels. The chunky play pieces slot neatly into the spaces on the pages and can also be used as first word flash cards. The plastic pocket makes it easy to pack-up and put back on the bookshelf at the end of the day.Also available: Colors, First Words, and Animals.