Concepts

Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.

While on vacation in Alphabet City, Little e and the other lowercase letters repair an old fire truck and come to the rescue when a fire engulfs the letter-making factory.

Rather than use the same old colors, a child paints animals and objects in a variety of different hues. Includes biographical information about the German painter Franz Marc, who created unconventional animal paintings in the early 1900s.

Numbers from one to one hundred climb to the top of an apple tree in this rhyming chant.

The rooster, dog, sheep, cow, pig, and other animals on a farm are made up of colorful shapes such as square, circle, rectangle, and triangle. Features die-cut pages.

Invites the reader to count the inhabitants of a garden, from one to ten, such as four bunnies and nine inchworms.

"Dog is back and into as much trouble as ever. The clumsy canine finds an alphabet's worth of adventure as he patrols his neighborhood..."

Babies introduce the ABC's, 1-2-3, rhymes, body parts, seasons and more in a collection of dyed-pulp paintings by Denise Fleming.

Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles. Includes study guide.