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More than 90 fun-first activities and 250+ stickers keep children busy and engaged learning colors, shapes and so much more!Thoroughly entertaining activities are designed by early childhood experts to hold preschoolers’ interest as they develop important skills. Using stickers on every page, challenges include: Distinguishing colors, shapes, and sizes Identifying similar and different objects Sorting and counting Choosing and using 250 colorful stickers of animals, vehicles, favorite foods, and toys is just part of the fun! Developing problem-solving and early math skills is a big bonus. The My First Activity Book Series is perfect for children with small hands who are just starting to learn. They can apply stickers, color, and cut with scissors. The small trim size allows children to easily understand the activity and remain engaged—and makes the books extremely portable.

Packed with 172 brain-boosting puzzles, curious children ages 5-7 will hone their problem-solving skills as they tackle engaging challenges.An exciting variety of illustrated puzzles appeal to many different learning styles, empowering curious kids to sharpen focus, reasoning, and other important school skills. There are different levels of dfficulty throughout the book, with challenges thoughtfully designed for intermediate to advanced learners.Three different types of puzzles are featured in the book: Shapes & Patterns Puzzles combining, dividing, and flipping shapes build a strong foundation in geometry. In addition to supporting school readiness, this helps with life skills.Logical Thinking puzzles develop strong observational skills as children tackle complex patterns. Learning to organize information helps with reasoning, improves reading comprehension, and efficiency.Spatial Awareness puzzles help young learners to visualize and imagine objects in space and in relation to other things. This is particularly useful in STEM-related endeavors.Entertaining activities, colorful art, and age-appropriate challenges encourage children to think critically and carefully!

Newborn babies as young as six weeks old will be mesmerized by the bold shapes and colors in BABY SEES COLORS! This book makes a perfect gift for a new baby—parents, grandparents, and other caretakers will love the bonding experience of reading this lovely board book aloud to infants or one-year-olds. **2019 National Parenting Product Awards Winner** (NAPPAawards.com)     Based on decades of research and refinement, the art in this high-contrast board book will help babies focus and begin to discern shapes and colors. Written by popular children’s book author Akio Kashiwara, BABY SEES COLORS has simple, uplifting images and rhymes. Babies soak in everything they hear, and eventually learn to associate particular sounds with familiar people and things. Hundreds of thousands of parents in Japan have already discovered the power of this little book, and now American parents can too! This adorable, sturdy book will still look new after being loved for years, and will find a place on the shelf next to classic board books like Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?; Chica Chica Boom Boom, and Sandra Boynton’s classics.  What parents are saying:  “My baby started being very interested in this as soon as she could focus, around one and a half months. This is a great first book!” “GREAT first book for baby. My two month old twins LOVE when I read and show them this book.” “Attention Grabber! Super cute book! Really grabs my 2 month old’s attention!"

With 350 stickers and 64 clever game boards, this sticker workbook provides hours of learning fun! **2019 National Parenting Product Awards Winner** (NAPPAawards.com) Playing with stickers books is a marvelous way for preschool children to hone fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and spatial relations while they play. With this sticker activity book for children ages 3 to 5, your child will:  -solve mazes -play matching games -complete counting activities  -decorate pictures While entertaining for hours on end, these preschool activity books can also teach your child to: -practice skills like decision making -sort objects by shape and color -develop observation skills -increase vocabulary -exercise creativity and much more!

Introducing the next book in the bestselling I CAN DO THAT! STICKER series. With 500 stickers and 40 clever gameboards, this sticker workbook provides hours of learning fun! Filled with lively illustrations of animals, children, food, toys, vehicles, and other appealing subjects.** I CAN DO THAT! STICKER series---2019 National Parenting Product Awards Winner** (NAPPAawards.com) Playing with stickers books is a marvelous way for preschool children to hone fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and spatial relations while they play. With this sticker activity book for children ages 2 to 5, your child will: -solve mazes -play matching games -complete counting activities -decorate pictures While entertaining for hours on end, these preschool activity books can also teach your child to: -practice skills like decision making -sort objects by shape and color -develop observation skills -increase vocabulary -exercise creativity and much more!

Every new parent purchases at least one high-contrast board book, and this one, with its bold, more abstract art, stands out from the crowd. Featuring graphic images that are perfect for infants, parents and babies will love exploring this book together. Infants can distinguish the colors black and white because of their high contrast. But what is the next color infants see? Red! The images in this book have been created based on decades of research and refinement and are accompanied by bouncy, rhyming text.

This heartwarming must-have international best-selling classic about baby lion in search of his daddy celebrates a childs special bond with dadperfect for holidays and any other day throughout the year. Are you my daddy? No, Baby Lion, Im a giraffe. But I can use my long neck to help you find him. Little ones love this heartwarming international classic about Baby Lion looking for his daddy. The lyrical, rhythmic text will have children and adults reading along together and asking: Are You My Daddy? One each page, children will use the clues to guess which animal Baby Lion will meet next. Turn the page to reveal a tall giraffe, a trunk-swinging elephant, a kangaroo with a snuggly pouch, and more. Along the way, babies will learn about a unique characteristic of each animal. Are You My Daddy? is perfect gift to share with dad on Fathers Day, birthdaysevery day is a day to celebrate dad! With simple, interesting facts woven through the charming text, Are You My Daddy? promotes playful learning. Sparks interaction between children and the person reading to themthe sweet guessing game is as engaging as it is entertaining.

Packed with more than 250 brain-boosting activities, this thoroughly engaging workbook helps children ages 2-4 learn how to write letters and numbers and draw shapes! Adorable illustrations and super-fun challenges build confidence and important preschool skills.This clever, colorful workbook is designed to hone fine motor skills, teaching little learners how to make lines, shapes and eventually letters and numbers. They’ll learn these important skills by playing fun games—mazes, dot-to-dot, picture puzzles, matching games and more. While they’re at it, they’ll be picking up other critical concepts such as counting sorting, problem-solving and spatial reasoning. Starting with basic lines, preschoolers will then move on to curves and zigzags until they have all the elements needed to tackle letters and numbers. The thoughtful, expertly crafted activities also inspire creativity and build focus. Best of all, children will be fully entertained for hours on end.

What's the Play Smart secret? Making learning fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 80 stickers, and a wipe-clean alphabet board For ages 3-5 8.25" x 11.875" Play Smart Alphabet 3+ will help your child develop preschool readiness skills, such as following directions and attending to tasks, while learning concrete skills, such as letter identification and matching uppercase and lowercase letter pairs. Your child will practice writing lines and curves, which will be essential when they begin to write letters. What’s Play Smart Workbooks Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®. About Gakken Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children. Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks. Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning.

What's the Play Smart secret? Making learning fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 80 stickers, and a wipe-clean numbers board For ages 2-4 8.25" x 11.875"  Play Smart Numbers 2+ will help your child develop preschool readiness skills such as following directions and attending to tasks, while learning concrete skills. Your child will be exposed to numbers through ten; however, the focus will be on identification of numbers through five, while practicing counting objects, making comparisons, and understanding one-to-one correspondence.    What’s Play Smart Workbooks  Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®.   About Gakken  Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children. Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks. Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning.                            

What's the Play Smart secret? Making learning fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 100 stickers, and a wipe-clean numbers board For ages 3-5 8.25" x 11.875"  Play Smart Numbers 3+ will help your child develop preschool readiness skills, such as following directions and attending to tasks, while learning concrete skills, such as counting and comparing quantities. By practicing tracing numbers, ordering numbers, making comparisons, identifying patterns, and understanding how parts can be added to make a whole, your child will be exposed to the numbers one through twenty. However, the focus will be on the identification of numbers one through ten.   What’s Play Smart Workbooks    Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®. About Gakken  Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children. Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks. Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning.      

Meet Mimi! Babies will love helping her learn animals with playful peek-a-boo pages and adorable illustrations.Who is it? Is it a tall giraffe munching on leaves? Or, a bouncy frog splashing in a puddle? The adorable animals peeking through the die cut windows on every page are sure to delight and suprise the littlest readers. With sturdy pages and rounded corners, this format is the perfect companion for teaching preschoolers early learning skills. Buttercup Babies books are the best books for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers! Portable format is perfect for kids on the go! Buttercup Babies series is created specifically to help preschoolers learn. A fresh take on early learning conceptschildren will recognize animals, relate to the child-like characters, and learn as they play! Gakken Publishing is the largest publisher of childrens educational books in Japan. For the first time, these sophisticated and exciting books are now available to parents, teachers, and caregivers in the United States.

Filled with scrumptious learning activities, children will love tackling these fun and challenging activities, which build the important school-readiness skills every preschooler needs.With an jumbo marker, write and wipe pages, an easy-to-carry format, and lots of fun-filled activites, Sweet Treats includes everything needed for playful learning! The mazes, spot the differences, and find it games feature kids' favorite sweet treats, along with an adorable cast of characters that make solving each puzzle tons of fun.

A beautiful story about introducing a new sibling to the family--the joyous and the not-so-joyous discoveries--a little one may feel when they are no longer the baby... all told through a beloved kittys perspective. A baby girl came to kittys house. It was the first time shed ever seen a baby--she was strange and beautfiul... and quiet. Kitty could not have been more wrong! Baby started crying so loudly, kitty couldnt even sleep. Kittys Little Sister is a wonderful way to introduce new babies into the family. The soft illustration style of Kaya Doi inspires snuggles and cuddles during reading time--a truly delightful story time experience. Following kitty as she learns to tolerate her little sister, live with her little sister, and finally love her little sister. With eye-catching gold foil on the cover and light pink end papers, this special book is a perfect gift for any little girl.

Packed with more than 230 brain-boosting activities, this thoroughly engaging workbook helps children ages 5-6 learn how to writing letters and numbers1-20, reading, and using a range of words to describe the world around them. All pages are perforated for easy removal.The content aligns with children’s developmental stages, allowing them to learn step by step. Challenges gradually become more difficult as they progress, building confidence as they complete each new activity. Colorful, easy-to-follow illustrations enable kids to attempt most tasks on their own, encouraging independence. Thoroughly fun activities keep them engaged and wanting to learn more and more! This book consists of 3 sections that support the development of your child’s kindergarten readiness skills. Learning Readiness Lines / Colors & Shapes / Patterns / Matching & Sorting Language Arts Alphabet / Phonics / Rhyming / Reading Readiness Math Concepts Numbers / Addition / Subtraction / Measuring / Comparing Date / Money / Time When they complete all the activities in the book, fill out the certificate and display it as a reminder of their great effort.

Introducing the third book in the bestselling I CAN DO THAT! STICKER series. With 506 stickers and 35 clever gameboards, this sticker workbook provides hours of learning fun! Filled with lively illustrations of animals, children, food, toys, vehicles, and other appealing subjects.** I CAN DO THAT! STICKER series---2019 National Parenting Product Awards Winner** (NAPPAawards.com)  Playing with stickers books is a marvelous way for preschool children to hone fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination, and spatial relations while they play. With this sticker activity book for children ages 3 to 5, your child will:  -solve mazes -play matching games -complete counting activities  -decorate pictures While entertaining for hours on end, these preschool activity books can also teach your child to: -practice skills like decision making -sort objects by shape and color -develop observation skills -increase vocabulary -exercise creativity and much more!

Tease and tickle your brain with totally entertaining trivia, logic puzzles, and other fun challenges that are perfectly appropriate for 1st graders! Clever kids will love joining Sammy Sleuth on his adventure solving puzzles, riddles, questions and answers, code challenges, revelaing messages, trivia, and much more fun on every page. With 128 challenges to complete, kids will have have hours of fun... at home or on the go. Perfect for passing time in the car, in the restaurant, rainy days, on summer vacation, or anytime kids want to be amused. The variety of age-appropriate activities keep kids engaged for hours. So, grab your pencil and start brain-building with this totally cool and entertaining logic puzzle activity book--just right for 1st graders!

Kindergarteners--get ready to exercise your brain with this big brain workout! With totally entertaining trivia, logic puzzles, and other fun challenges, brain-building has never been so much fun. With logic puzzles, trivia, questions and answers, codes to crack, and hidden messages, these fun challenges are sure to keep kids entertained or hours. Kindergarteners will love completing over 128 challenges! And, the handy, take-with-you-anywhere format is perfect for travel, summer vacation, rainy days, or just passing time. These activities are specially designed to tease little learners brains and create lots of fun!

Learn the sounds of 8 different animals with playful, interactive sound buttons in this adorable Buttercup Babies board book! Bunny is greeting her friends. How do they greet her back? Dog says, Woof! Woof! What does cow say? Moo! With 8 animal sound buttons, toddlers will name the sound each animal makes and then press the button to hear it! Learning to recognize and name the most popular animals--dog, cow, cat, pig, chick, and horse--is playful and fun! The interactive sound buttons are perfectly-sized for a toddlers tiny hands and promotes hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and learning names and sounds of various animals.

Learn the sounds of 8 different vehicles with playful, interactive sound buttons in this adorable Buttercup Babies board book! Bunny hears lots of different vehicles. What do they sound like? Beep! Vroom! Chugga-chugga! Press the button to hear the sound! With 8 vehicle sound buttons, toddlers will name the sound and then press the button to hear it! Learning to recognize and name the most popular vehicles--tricycle horn, car, helicopter, boat, train, and fire engine--is playful and fun! The interactive sound buttons are perfectly-sized for a toddlers tiny hands and promotes hand-eye coordination, fine motor skills, and learning names and sounds of various vehicles.

What's the Play Smart secret? Making learning fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 80 stickers, and a wipe-off activity board For ages 2-4 8.25" x 11.875" portrait (top binding) Play Smart Cutting and Pasting 2+ includes a variety of entertaining and engaging cutting, pasting and challenges that get children prepped for preschool! It will make your children familiar with basic scissor skills and strengthen fine-motor skills. The activities such as cutting straight line, curves and shapes as well as gluing, stickers, mazes, counting build on helping children to become more confident and independent as they go.   What’s Play Smart Workbooks    Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®.   About Gakken  Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children. Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks. Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning.        

What's the Play Smart secret? Making learning fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 50 stickers, and a wipe-off activity board For ages 3-5 8.25" x 11.875" portrait (top binding) Play Smart Cutting and Pasting 3+ includes a variety of entertaining and engaging cutting, pasting and challenges that get kids prepped for preschool! It will make your children familiar with scissor skills for preschool and strengthen fine-motor skills. The activities such as cutting lines and shapes, gluing, stickers, mazes, counting build on helping children to become more confident and independent as they go.   What’s Play Smart Workbooks    Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®.   About Gakken  Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children.   Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks.   Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning.  

What's the Play Smart secret? Making learning fun! BOOK FEATURES 70 pages includes over 80 stickers, and a wipe-off activity board For ages 2-4 8.25" x 11.875" portrait (top binding)   Play Smart Tracing Skills 2+ includes a variety of entertaining and engaging tracing, drawing and challenges that get kids prepped for preschool! It will make your children familiar with basic pen-control skills with crayons, pens and pencils: from straight lines to curves, zigzags, shapes, letters and number. The activities build on helping children to become more confident and independent as they go.   What’s Play Smart Workbooks  Over 48 million Play Smart Workbooks sold worldwide. Educational method with over 60 years of experience. Age appropriate activities: Activities are carefully developed to match the level of specific age group. Step-by-step method: The instruction and the activity gradually get challenging throughout the workbook. Wide variety of activities: Variety of activities from different approaches help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, which help them to be able to solve practical problems on their own. It also helps keep their interest and focus. Stickers: Uses stickers within the context of certain activities and also as rewards for completed work to keep children motivated. 4 colors throughout the book with variety of fun illustrations: The cute and colorful illustrations engage children in activities. Fun illustrations help children understand the activities without reading the instructions. Support children’s learning: “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. School readiness: Children can acquire basic academic skills before entering preschool. Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®.   About Gakken  Gakken is the number 1 educational publisher in Japan. Founded in 1946 by Hideto Furuoka, the mission of Gakken has always been to produce fun-first, educational materials for children.   Gakken is well-known to Asian families for its bestselling workbooks. Gakken is also well-respected in academic circles - publishing popular teaching materials for preschools, kindergartens, and primary schools. In addition to its substantial publishing business, Gakken also runs 14,000 learning centers called “Gakken Classrooms” and operates nursery schools - all inspired by the successful formula used in their workbooks.   Play Smart’s philosophy rewards success and builds confidence. Created by educational experts, this award-winning Play Smart series uses Gakken’s unique fun-first method of completing age-appropriate activities that are progressively more challenging, building on small achievements, and fostering an eagerness to learn. The variety of activities leads to creative problem-solving skills and prepares children for the journey of lifelong learning.         

Packed with 70 pages of activities, this bestselling workbook includes over 90 stickers and a wipe-clean activity board. Adorable illustrations and super-fun challenges build confidence and important preschool skills. National Parenting Product Awards (NAPPA) WinnerPlay Smart Early Learning is the perfect activity book to promote early learning for ages 2 and 3. An engaging variety of fun-first, age-appropriate activities include tracing, cutting and pasting, coloring and picture puzzles. The challenges become gradually harder as children move through the book, building confidence and important skills such as fine motor coordination, problem solving, and social skills. The activities are thoroughly entertaining, building a foundation for lifelong learning! Reward stickers for completed activities keep little learners highly motivated. All Play Smart workbooks are known for: A kid-tested, time-tested educational method developed and fine-tuned over 60 years. Age appropriate activities carefully designed to target each age group. The instructions and activities gradually increase in difficulty. A wide variety of activities help children strengthen critical thinking skills and creativity, empowering them to solve practical problems on their own while holding their interest. “To Parents” sections explain the effective ways for parents to support children’s learning. The Play Smart Series has won National Parenting Product Awards, Family Choice Award and Mom’s Choice Awards®.

This Mom’s Choice Award winner is an extra-fun sticker activity book for small hands. Little ones ages 2 and up will enjoy choosing and using adorable stickers to solve engaging picture puzzles.My First Sticker Activity Book is thoughtfully designed for children as young as two years old (and older). Activities get gradually harder as the book progresses, so children may start by choosing stickers to complete a scene, and then they are prompted to place stickers in a specific spot, and next the stickers are used to solve age-appropriate picture puzzles. Thoroughly entertaining challenges build skills and confidence. Children love choosing from more than 200 colorful stickers of animals, fruit and vegetables, toys, and other everyday items. Additional activities completed with a chunky crayon or pencil help develop school readiness skills, earning an adorable reward sticker! Young learners can apply stickers, color, and cut with scissors boosting fine motor coordination, concentration, and critical thinking skills. The portable trim size means go-anywhere fun!

This Mom’s Choice award-winning activity book provides 60 fun-first, fine motor skill-building activities for preschoolers. **Play Smart My First series---Mom’s Choice Awards® Gold Recipient**My First Cutting Activity Book is for children as young as two who are not yet proficient in using scissors. The activities are carefully designed to develop fine motor skills, focus, hand-eye coordination, and critical thinking. This step-by-step method helps children expand their fine motor skills, concentration, and critical thinking skills. Reward stickers are provided for each activity. Portable and perfectly designed for small hands to cut, color, and apply stickers, My First Cutting Activity Book offers anywhere, anytime fun for curious, creative preschoolers.

Part adventure-story, part puzzle book, and plenty of fun, follow the treasure map and solve puzzles, choosing stickers to make art as you go!Ben and Emma visit Space World, Safari Land, an apple orchard, and other exciting places in Wonder Land. Readers create beautiful sticker artwork which also completes the story. But something bigger is going on as well! The puzzles in this book create beautiful artwork, and they also nurture curiosity. As they work their way through the puzzles in this book, children begin to understand that various parts can be put together to form a whole. This concept promotes “system thinking” which is indispensable in fields such as artificial intelligence and programming. System thinking involves taking a step back, looking at things objectively, and creating solutions to various. In other words, by developing creativity and focus through sticker play in this book, children are also learning to choose the most appropriate means and methods to achieve their goals. This is a strong foundation for STEAM skills.