If your child is a budding zoologist, check out the Amazing Animals series all by Valerie Bodden. These books are a perfect fit for preschoolers and may even enlighten you! Each of the titles focuses on a particular animal, showcasing it with over sized photos and short bits of interesting information, all packed into a picture book-sized package. Bodden's book on polar bears, for instance, equates the size of the bear (1,500 pounds), to something young children can relate to: "eight grown-up men put together". She goes on to say that "a polar bear standing on its back legs could touch the rum of a basketball hoop", and that "polar bears sometimes stand up for a look around".
Oppportunities to introduce new words to your child's vocabulary abound, and the book even includes a short explanation for some of the more unfamiliar words (like "predator" or "Arctic").
You will probably want to read all of the titles available in our library. In addition to Polar Bears, these include Monkeys, Penguins, Lions, and Sharks.
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