This utterly charming book does a magnificent job of helping parents involve and excite their firstborn with respect to the anticipation and arrival of a new sibling. Filled with unusually clever and entertaining rhymes (example: 'We grabbed the bags, quickly loaded the car. Mommy was breathing funny. She sounded bizarre!'), the story follows a family of sheep from a rush to the hospital through the baby's joyous first ye...Read more

Baby Steps to STEM is an extraordinarily well-written and accessible guidebook on how to provide children from birth to age three with learning experiences that form an optimal foundation for STEM learning. The first three chapters offer readers a concise yet remarkably expansive background on principles and concepts relating to early childhood learning and development. The balance of the book consists of 60 play-based, d...Read more

An already standout publication just got better. beanz (formerly Kids, Code, and Computer Science magazine) is a bi-monthly online and print magazine about learning to code, computer science, and how we use technology in our daily lives. The writing and new design is top notch throughout - crisp, clear, and enlightening with a perpetually playful bent that frequently elicits young readers' smiles and keeps them glued to t...Read more

This marvelously fresh and insightful book places story retelling front and center as an educational tool through which a host of essential skills can be promoted in young children: enhanced vocabulary, communication, and comprehension skills, improved conceptual thinking, social-emotional development, numbers, STEM skills, and more! The book is carefully structured in two parts, the first of which delves into key concept...Read more

Brainspace is an outstanding quarterly print educational magazine for kids 8 to 14 years old. It is packed with gorgeous photos, playful illustrations, exciting experiments and an abundance of fascinating information on a broad range of topics including Earth sciences, biology, math, technology and much more. Both the magazine's format and content are remarkably engaging, so much so that even children who claim a dislik...Read more

The goal of this 96-page book, one it achieves with remarkable efficacy, is to 'equip third, fourth, and fifth graders with the tools they need to help them with the writing process.' The 5-step process used throughout the book (Prewriting, Drafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing ) breaks writing into ordered, doable tasks that take much of the angst and mystery out writing. The steps are further broken down into inte...Read more

Kids and adults quickly became hooked on the dozen fun, challenging yet satisfyingly solvable mysteries in Critical Thinking Detective. Most any reader willing to apply his or her powers of observation, deduction and inference can get to the bottom of these 12 entertaining whodunits. Each mystery involves a theft and provides the story, facts and a lineup of four suspects on a single page. The page that follows is broken ...Read more

This collection of 150 problems asks students to perform calculations to make a comparison and come to a decision. While the calculation-based comparison format is consistent throughout, the wide-ranging problems incorporate a variety of math concepts including ratios, fractions, percentages, proportions, 2D and 3D geometry, graphing, algebraic reasoning, patterns, probability, statistics and more. The process of analyzin...Read more

Doodles Canine Coloring Fun is more than just an excellent coloring book. What sets it apart are the compelling fun facts that accompany each of the 34 full-page coloring activities and several great educational activities that appear towards the end of the book. Each illustration displays a particular breed (Basset Hound, Dalmatian, Poodle, . . .) and is accompanied by an entertaining fun fact. Those wide-ranging facts a...Read more

This bi-monthly online and print magazine is a wonderful resource that helps young people learn to write code and keep abreast of the ever-changing world of computer science. Due to savvy editorial choices and skilled writing, Kids, Code, and Computer Science Magazine is as entertaining as it is enlightening. A rich assortment of highly engaging articles (profiles, interviews, product reviews, math-related pieces, program...Read more

In addition to being loads of fun, this book with a built-in functioning piano is an exceptional educational tool. The keyboard contains surprisingly robust features. For starters, it is tuned to A440 pitch just like a full-sized piano and has keys that extend one and a half octaves from C below middle C to the G above, a total of 20 keys. The keyboard is marked with numbers and letters so that kids can start playing the ...Read more

Children and parents were awestruck by this beautifully-made, colorful fabric book and the many fine educational play activities it contains. Each of its 12 pages contains distinctly different, yet equally delightful activities to be explored - Tic Tac Toe, finger puppets, shape-matching, shoelaces to tie, cloth lollipops, an alarm clock, a pluck-able fruit tree, and a big-eyed, furry-eared dog, among others. Each page is...Read more

This colorful board book gives parents and caretakers a playful and engaging way to make the most of the fact that 2- to 3-year-olds are constantly absorbing language at an astonishing rate. By that age, youngsters already understand far more than most of us realize, and the benefits of capitalizing on that window of rapid verbal growth cannot be overstated. 100 Words for Toddlers is chock-full of images, each accompanied...Read more

This interactive board book is a genuine adventure of fun and learning, one through which kids glean fascinating facts about the peoples and customs of faraway lands while learning new words (and their pronunciations) in a variety of languages. Gorgeous full color photographs display abodes of all sorts - a ger (pronounced gair) in Mongolia, a woonark (VOHN-ark) in Amsterdam, a bamboo house in Bangladesh, and more. To dis...Read more