✔️ Mathical Book Prize Honor Book, Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute, 2025
(First Friends: Numbers)
"This is a great addition to the concept shelves"
– School Library Journal (First Friends: Shapes)
Bright illustrations and simple text make this board book perfect for readers-in-progress"
– Foreword Reviews (First Friends: Shapes)
“This colorful, rhyming adventure encourages little ones to recognize shapes and find hidden ones scattered throughout vivid scenes of children playing... Both educational and entertaining, this offers a lesson on shapes we see every day with a focus on joy and play”
– Booklist (First Friends: Shapes)
"For children who go to nursery, it’s enjoyable to recognise their own routines in these brightly illustrated books"
– JUNO Magazine (First Friends: Numbers)
"Books to introduce young ones to the world around us that they will enjoy discovering, with interactive seek-and-find challenges"
– Creative Steps Magazine (First Friends: Colo(u)rs & First Friends: Opposites)
New Editions
First Friends Bodies
Written by Mk Smith Despres
Illustrated by Xuan Le
Join a childcare classroom as they move their bodies and transition to circle time!
It’s time to move our bodies! Can you raise your shoulders up and down? How about scrunching your face and spinning around? Let’s dance and shake our wiggles out before settling down on the rug for circle time.
First Friends Feelings
Written by Mk Smith Despres
Illustrated by Xuan Le
Join a childcare classroom at lunchtime as they experience different emotions!
It’s time for lunch! Some friends are feeling cranky, frustrated, or downright hangry. But caring friends and teachers help everyone deal with their big feelings.
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