Books in Skills for Starting School series

A fun, hands-on sticker and activity book to help children explore shapes and sizes, developed in collaboration with educational experts.Help your preschooler get ready for school with Shapes and Sizes. Featuring more than 80 colorful stickers, this book is filled with hands-on activities to spark curiosity and boost confidence in learning key early mathematical concepts.Children will practice recognizing shapes and describing their properties, comparing sizes, and exploring patterns. Shapes and Sizes introduces first geometric shapes such as circles, triangles, rectangles, and squares, and teaches simple vocabulary to describe sizes, including comparatives and superlatives. Playful images even encourage them to identify shapes and sizes in the world around them.Children will love learning about and exploring everyday objects through play with the funny and friendly cat, monkey, and elephant characters in Shapes and Sizes, part of DK's Skills for Starting School series.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

A reward chart book with 22 charts and 600 stickers to help teach young children 12 essential personal and social skills for starting school in a fun and rewarding way, developed in collaboration with educational experts.Friendly and funny characters Bip, Bop, and Boo guide you through activity pages and help children understand each skill, from getting dressed and brushing their teeth to listening carefully and being polite. Twenty-two tear-out charts, six hundred reward stickers, and five achievement certificates provide positive reinforcement to motivate children to try their best. Additional ideas and tips give further inspiration for parents to help support their child with each skill.Created in collaboration with educational experts specifically to teach children the personal and social skills needed to start school, My Sticker Reward Chart Book helps to build independence and resilience so both kids and parents can feel more confident when that exciting day comes.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

A fun, hands-on sticker and activity book for any child who is familiar with letter sounds and is ready to move on to reading simple words, developed in collaboration with educational experts.Help your preschooler get ready for school with Ready to Read. Featuring more than 80 colorful stickers, this book is filled with hands-on activities to spark a love of reading and boost confidence in learning key literacy skills.Children will practice their existing phonics knowledge by reading letter sounds, finding missing sound stickers, and blending letter sounds together to read their very first words. Picture clues encourage them to use context in reading, starting with familiar consonant-vowel-consonant words.Children will love learning to read their first words through play with the funny and friendly cat, monkey, and elephant characters in Ready to Read, part of DK's Skills for Starting School series.This Level 3 playbook builds on concepts learned in Level 1 Skills for Starting School ABC Games.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

Hear all about Bop the Elephant's day in Story Time.Perfect for little hands, this book-and-toy set comes with an adorable Bop the Elephant, just like the one in the book.Promoting interactive learning, developing social skills, and boosting children's curiosity, Story Time encourages listening skills, creativity, and fun. Bip, Bop, and Boo talk about their days, from building sand castles to zooming down slides at the park.Helping all children be ready for school, this series of books boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence. With a range of formats to choose from including workbooks, games, and board books, and featuring the loveable characters Bip, Bop, and Boo, this series helps children develop and maintain the skills needed for school readiness.

Supports the PBS KIDS mission.Get ready to play, get ready to learn, get ready for school.This interactive board book is designed to support childhood development through the early years. The themed lift-the-flaps and peep-throughs in I'm Ready for School enable a child to learn key skills and knowledge in the comfortable context of play, exploration, and discussion about real-life experiences. Key concepts such as morning routines, eating breakfast, and matching shoes, to colors, shapes, and opposites are all covered in I'm Ready for School to inspire learning and support language skills, social skills, and physical and knowledge development.This new series of interactive books and games brings the brightest and best start to learning for every child. Key skills are developed through play, exploration, and hands-on experience. Each element of the series supports active learning through creative thinking, boosting confidence, curiosity, and independence. The series provides a solid foundation in reading, arithmetic, and writing, and supports emotional, social, and motor skills development.The guiding early learning developmental milestones of school readiness inform each part of the program, supporting parents as they help their little ones to get ready for school. The colorful characters — the storyteller, the adventurer, and the creator — were developed as an engaging and effective way to inspire a confident, curious, and capable child who will be ready for school.

Boo the Monkey is ready for fun in Playtime.Perfect for little hands, this sturdy book-and-toy set comes with an adorable Boo the Monkey to help children use their imagination to dress up and play pretend games. Watch Boo transform into a wizard, a pirate, and a firefighter.Promoting interactive learning, developing social skills, and boosting children's curiosity, Playtime encourages creativity and fun opening the door to imaginative play.Helping all children be ready for school, this series of books boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence. With a range of formats to choose from including workbooks, games, and board books, and featuring the loveable characters Bip, Bop, and Boo, this series helps children develop and maintain the skills needed for school readiness.

Learning to get along with others is a key skill needed for starting school, and Sharing is Caring is the perfect way to talk about friendship with your preschooler.Funny, friendly characters Bip, Bop, and Boo star in this simple story about sharing and caring for others as they learn to play together politely. Open questions and speech bubbles encourage toddlers to take an active role in the story, giving them a chance to empathize with the characters and consider their feelings, and entertaining pictures make kids laugh along the way.Developed in collaboration with educational experts, Sharing is Caring will help toddlers settle into their new classroom environment, make friends, and feel more confident and comfortable at school.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

Learning to get along with others is a key skill needed for starting school, and Please and Thank You is the perfect way to remind preschoolers how to use their manners.Funny, friendly characters Bip, Bop, and Boo star in this simple story about using the very important magic words "please" and "thank you." Discussion questions and speech bubbles encourage toddlers to take an active role in the story, giving them a chance to practice being polite so they'll be more likely to remember, and entertaining pictures make them laugh along the way.Developed in collaboration with educational experts, Please and Thank You will help toddlers make a habit of using "please" and "thank you" and help them settle into their new classroom environment, make friends, and feel more confident and comfortable at school.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

With 55 fun flaps to help preschoolers learn to recognize numbers and practice counting to 10, this book uses an interactive approach to promote learning through play and exploration, and has been developed in collaboration with educational experts.Funny and friendly characters Bip, Bop, and Boo introduce a new number on each page and invite young readers to count objects in the colorful pictures and under the flaps. Each page has the same number of flaps as the number featured to make learning fun and interactive, and large, clear numbers help with recognition. Kids can help Bip, Bop, and Boo find two super boots for their superhero costumes, four crabs by the seashore, eight eggs at the farm, and much more.Little ones will love learning to count to 10 along with Bip, Bop, and Boo in I Can Count, part of DK's Skills for Starting School series.Series Overview: DK's Skills for Starting School series boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

Get Ready to Play, Get Ready to Learn, Get Ready for School!Bip, Bop, and Boo Get Ready for School: Number Skills is a third-level number activity playbook designed to support a child's learning through the early stages of math development. Join the Get Ready for School gang — Bip, Bop, and Boo — and practice adding and subtracting up to 10, counting in 10s, estimating, and sharing with real-life problem-solving activities such as going shopping and playing sports in this fun new format for children 3 to 5 years old.PBS KIDS and the PBS KIDS logo are registered trademarks of PBS. Used with permission. ©2015 PBS. All rights reserved.Supporting the PBS KIDS mission to help all children be ready for school, Get Ready for School boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

Get Ready to Play, Get Ready to Learn, Get Ready for School!Bip, Bop, and Boo Get Ready for School: 1, 2, 3 is a first-level number activity playbook designed to support a child's learning through the first steps of math development. Join the Get Ready for School gang — Bip, Bop, and Boo — as they count from 1 to 10 through fun, themed activities and games featuring pirate treasure, spaceships, toys, sea creatures, and more in this fun new format for children 3 to 5 years old.PBS KIDS and the PBS KIDS logo are registered trademarks of PBS. Used with permission. ©2015 PBS. All rights reserved.Supporting the PBS KIDS mission to help all children be ready for school, Get Ready for School boosts children's confidence, curiosity, and independence with bright and colorful photography, fun flaps to pull and lift, learning games, and engaging characters that keep learning friendly and fun. Help children develop the skills needed for starting school with DK's new school readiness program featuring interactive board books and games to bring the brightest and best start to learning for every child.

Supports the PBS KIDS mission.Get ready to play, get ready to learn, get ready for school.In Number Memory Games, cards show numbers 1-10 arranged in set order with everyday objects and number words to help toddlers practice adding and taking away up to 10, sharing, and grouping. The easy-to-understand visual approach focuses on real-life problem-solving activities, such as going shopping and playing sports.These boxes of game cards are designed to support children's learning development through the early years. The guiding early learning developmental milestones of school readiness inform the content, supporting parents as they get a child ready for school. Each box includes 40 photographic cards and instructions to play a range of two-player games with ideas of games that a child can play to learn key skills. The colorful photographic cards will inspire and develop a confident, curious, and capable child. Parents will love using these games with their kids.This new series of interactive books and games brings the brightest and best start to learning for every child. In Get Ready for School, key skills are developed through play, exploration, and hands-on experience. Each element of the series supports active learning through creative thinking, boosting confidence, curiosity, and independence. The series provides a solid foundation in reading, arithmetic, and writing, and supports emotional, social, and motor skills development.