Baby Preschool Books

This is a perfect book for little ones. I read it to my son when he was a toddler and it was one of his favorites. Now I bought it for his daughter, and she loves it too.

The book was in great condition at an excellent price. I received it promptly, unlike the other 2 books I ordered from Rescue Books on your site. You should not sell books on your site from people you don't really know.

All of our children loved this book and so did the many other babies who received this as a gift from us. It is timeless!

I'd never read this book before it was given to my son as a gift when he was about one. It soon became his favorite book! He loved the pictures of the babies and the simple text that accompanied them. The overall message of the book, I thought, was lovely -- all babies like to be hugged and kissed and cuddled and loved.

I have loved this book for years. My niece had several Fujikawa books that were recently handed down to my daughter. The hand-me-down copy of Babies (printed in 1980) was getting torn up so I ordered a new one to replace it. The new copy is missing 6 pages. My daughter is 19 months old and flips back and forth saying "grow, grow" looking for pages that are not there. Everything else is the same. This is still a beautiful book but I'm very dissapointed that this new version is missing pages...and so is my daughter.
Should have read the reviews before buying this reprint (printed in 2006).

I have a son who is soon to be two. We read a lot of children's books, and it always amazes me at how many don't flow very well in terms of text. The text in this book is simple but very well-written. I am only giving it 4 stars only because I believe it would have been a better book for a younger child. He loved it for a short period of time, but a year ago it would have interested him more. It's a great book to use when your child is just beginning to be interested in having books read to him/her.

I love all of the Gertie and Friends books, but this one is probably my favorite. The illustrations are simple, and yet full of interesting tidbits you can help your child find. It's amazing how expressive these little goslings are. I appreciate that the story is short and sweet. My daughter is not yet old enough to enjoy longer stories, but she is fully able to sit through this one.

My son laughs everytime we read this -- which is at least 10x per day. He loves this book and carries it everywhere.

Ollie the Stomper is a follow-up to Olivier Dunrea's Gossie and Gertie series for baby/preschool readers. Ollie is the younger brother to the older goslings. And like younger brothers everywhere, he follows the bigger kids around. You see, "Gossie wears bright red boots" and "Gertie wears bright blue boots."

Ollie stomps around after them, wanting boots, too, as the bigger kids have adventures (very gentle adventures, like jumping over a puddle, or hiding in a pumpkin patch). Finally Ollie takes a stand, standing up on an overturned bucket and demanding: "I want boots!" Gossie and Gertie each give him a boot, though he learns that boots may not be as desirable as he had previously expected.

This story is a natural as a board book edition. Each page has a short, five or six word sentence and a self-contained picture. For much of the book, Ollie is on the left-hand page, while Gossie and Gertie are on the right-hand page, with parallel actions and word choices (Ollie stomps, Gossie and Gertie romp, for example). The pictures of Ollie are priceless. Even though his face is mostly beak, Dunrea is able to convey a range of emotions through Ollie's body language, eyes, and spiky feathers.

This book is sure to please preschoolers who like to stomp, tromp, and romp, and jump over puddles. And who doesn't love goslings? The board book edition will stand up to the many retellings that are likely to be requested.

This book review was originally published on my blog, Jen Robinson's Book Page, on April 12, 2007.

My 2 1/2 year old loves these books, especially the ones featuring Ollie. This is his second adventure and the first in which he is seen throughout the entire book. The illustrations are beautiful and the story is simple and innocent. Great fun.

This was a very funny book about noses! I think that it is a great book to learn to read with. It has easy words and i'm sure that it will make you laugh! You should definately buy and read this book!

This was a very funny book about noses! I think that it is a great book to learn to read with. It has easy words and i'm sure that it will make you laugh! You should definately buy and read this book!

I love this book and also have the original one. What a fun way to teach little ones about noses, not just different kinds and sizes but what they are used for. Colorful and fun this book is sure to delight your children and you as well.After all, noses are an important part of our lives!
Highly Recommended!

A fantastic little book to teach the young ones about the sizes, shapes, and every other item concerning noses. There are elephants and birds, and other kinds of animals, and some suggestions about how noses are used as well as what would happen if we didn't have any noses. Terrific guidance for the youngsters and oldsters alike. Beautiful poetry and colors, all primary ones. Catchy and wonderful!!!

This was the first book I learned to read all by myself, all the way through.

my son and i love making a game out of this book i tell him to find the chairs ect. and he loves this as a game and a book.

I love this book it is vey funny and I like how it show how things are so big to bird and a mouse. In a People House is a great book to read to your kids all of it's pages have bright colors and they did a good jod to make it look like how it would look to a mouse. To me the best part was in the end when they stack up all of the stuff and then it crashes and the people chase them out.

The book "In a People House" is a great children's book that has all sorts of literary terms used in the book. It shows some rhyming, alliteration, and other assortments of speech. The book itself is a joy to read with yourself or with others. The rhyming is pretty fun to sound out, and I myself can say that it was nice to look back on the classical readings of 'Dr. Seuss.'

this book is great for teaching kids what everything is around the house. i think parents should have their kids read this book. its one of my other favorites!

I loved this book as a kid and now love reading it to my nephew. It teaches him the names of so many things in a fun way. Its also a book that kids can read by themselves fairly quickly since most of it entails naming items.

A great counting book with our favorite characters, the Backyardigans!

Surprisingly, the book is not quite as durable as I'd hoped it would be. But at this price, it's still worth it.

I bought this book for my grandson and he loves it. It's a nice sturdy book that will last a long time.

My 19 month old son loves this book. It is helping him learn his numbers.

This is my 14 month old son's favorite book. He often picks it out of a pile of toys and brings to us to 'read'. I sing the backyardigans opening song while he flips the pages and watch him open a huge smile.

baby loved it so much he practically tore it in half with the number of times he's opened and closed it. and it's small enough for him to carry around everywhere with him.

I can rarely find Backyardigans merchandise for my son who just loves these guys! This book is really colorful and he just adores it! I highly recommend it for all Backyardigan fans!

I read a lot of books to my son, but he's not always too interested in actually looking at them. For some reason, he just loves this book. I think the bright colors capture his attention - very well done. Also, I like the padded cover and rounded corners, as my son loves to hold and chew on the books!!

My grandson loves anything backyardigans so I had to buy this book. It's small enough to fit in a diaper bag very colorful and there are enough details in the pictures that you can sit and point things out. Great for when you are stuck waiting someplace.

"Jungle Colors" is a simple but fun board-book featuring your backyard friends, The Backyardigans. In this book, the Backyardigans are on a jungle adventure, much like some of the ones seen on TV. But this jungle adventure is especially colorful. They encounter various colors as they make their journey, from brown to fabulous red rubies.

The colors are bright and cheerful. The illustrations go well with the fairly simply text. A nice book for basic learning about colors or for Backyardigans fans.This is a "Super Chubby" board-book by Simon Spotlight. That means that the front and back covers have a sort of squishy feel to them and the book won't easily slip out of little kids' hands.

Jungle Colors, feauring the Backyardigans, is a fun adventure. The Backyardigans explore the jungle, and the colors brown, purple, blue, white, yellow, green, black, orange, pink, red and gray. The book is well made and sturdy, a fun read for both adult and child.

It's great to find children's books that are different.
I love the play on words and the quirky illustrations. My 15 month old girl can read along to the first few pages as they are words she recognises my everyday - MOMA (mama), Da Da (Daddy) & Dali (Dolly).
My little girl has "Fashion" as well and both books are become well worn!
You're never too young to learn about art!

This visually stunning book fits perfectly in little hands and is filled with stimulating images that children love to look at over and over again. It's printing quality is exceptional and it's by far the best introduction to art for this age group that I've seen. This would make a wonderful gift for any preschool home.

Good for all art lovers not just children - but a very, very, good way to introduce your little ones early on to the beautiful and amazing world of art.

What a pleasure it is to find a book worth relishing again and again for it's clever use of words and graphics arts to foster in young children a love of modern art. Like a quick trip to MOMA snuggled up on your own sofa, your toddler may become familiar with concepts and visuals that can only enrich their love of color and (and simple words which they soon memorize and "read" along with you) and entertain their imaginitive spirits. For your budding Warhol or simply the art lover in you, here is a fantastic exposure to modern art that allows your child to explore, to learn and laugh all at once.

I grew up reading these Sendak books, and watching the Really Rosie movie that incorporates them, and love them. My son loves them too. I do however, miss the hard cover version. The paperbacks seem kind of flimsy and it takes two hands to keep the pages open.

Pierre, Alligators All Around, One Was Johnny, and Chicken Soup with Rice are wonderful books and beautifully illustrated. They come in three sizes--the original nutshell library size (the size of an hp ink cartridge box), the re-released hardcover nutshell library size (the size of an hp ink cartridge without the box), and the paperback set. The description for this set makes it appear it is the paperback set--it is not. It is actually the original nutshell library size and quite small. It doesn't appear that Amazon currently sells the regular paperback size, so unless you're specifically looking for a very small book, wait for the regular size.

When I read this book, I just can't help but sing the song from the Really Rosie TV special back in the 80's. (I also bought the CD.) It is a favorite of mine, of my grown children, and sure to become a favorite of their children for whom I bought it. Charming illustrations, clever content and a fun way to learn the alphabet.

This is an alphabet book featuring alligators drawn by Maurice Sendak. Each letter has the alligators doing some activity, such as getting giggles for "g" or throwing tantrums for "t". The book is cute and not scary. It has about 60 words.

Maurice Sendak's Alligators All Around: An Alphabet portrays a family of three alligators through the ups and downs of daily life in their household. Not a traditional narrative, the personalities of the alligator family emerge in a series of humorous vignettes associated with each letter of the alphabet. "D" shows the child grudgingly helping his father "doing dishes"; "G" shows the family enjoying each other's company "getting giggles"; "T" shows the child "throwing tantrums," which may be the cause for "H" showing the parents in bed with cold compresses "having headaches." Each letter receives one page, with three-color illustrations appearing in boxed panels. Sendak's unique style comes through, with the alligator parents showing shades of "wild things" and the alligator child marching across the pages like Max. Beneath the illustrations, an uppercase serif letter appears in the lower-left corner along with the associated phrase of words starting with the letter. Children will love the small size of the book (approximately 5"x7") and will notice the relationship between the letters of the alphabet and the sounds they make in words.

I wanted this book for activity ideas not dittos and activity sheets, I will make it work. I will be using some of the concepts and some dittos.

Covey incorporates his highly successful life style changes to the benefit of the toddler and pre-schooler in this interesting and skillful book. Who can question his methods? They work on every age group and in every situation. Motivational and encouraging, this children's volume will not only help the child but the parent to understand why math and learning in general can be fun.

Elmer's Weather is a great little book. I'm trying to teach my son Italian and am always looking for books like Elmer's Weather. I'm grateful for the translation and it is also fun and colorful! We laugh at Elmer's funny glasses every time. I will continue to look for more in the series. Thank You Amazon for carrying Italian language books!!

This title is wonderful and sweet, and the translations are fun. My son loves the illustrations and laughs when we read each page in italiano. Ci piace!

Elmer the elephant is an adorable character for toddlers. In this book, the multi-colored elephant incounters a different weather conditions on each page. From windy to snowy to sunny, toddlers learn about the weather in a simple, brightly colored format. My 19 month old son adores Elmer and insists on taking this book to bed with him each night.