Children's Books

Birth & up. Delight young readers with this engaging set of touch-and-feel board books designed to support early literacy and sensory exploration. Each book features a padded, embrodered character on the cover and unique textured elements throughout, inviting babies to explore through touch while building early connections to books. With cheerfuly rhyming text and lively illustrations, these stories encourage language development, listening skills, and joyful interaction between children and caregivers. Perfectly sized for little hands, these durable books are made to withstand repeated use, making them ideal additions to infant classrooms, childcare centers, and home libraries. Each book includes 10 pages of engaging content. Set of 6 board books.

Birth and up. Teach young children basic character traits with the You Are Awesome book series. Using intriguing photographs and simple but engaging language, this series shows children simple ways to practice virtue in everyday life. The series also explains how treating others well will improve one's own physical and emotional well-being. Simply put, these books will empower children to become better classmates, better playmates, and better friends.

6 months & up. Discover these engaging interactive books. With their simple text and colorful images these cloth books will bring joy to young infants.

Birth & up. The Curious Me!™ books is a captivating 6-book set designed to introduce young children to Letters, Numbers, Animals, Colors, Families, and Feelings. Each book in this engaging series is beautifully illustrated by a different artist, making it a unique and collectible addition to any child's library. These board books are crafted to support early literacy development through rich vocabulary, engaging text, and vibrant artistic visuals. Perfect for sparking curiosity and learning, the Curious Me! series provides a fun and educational experience for young readers.

6 months & up. Introduce engaging stories to your classroom with the Eric Carle Board Book Collection - Set of 8. Featuring stories by well-known author Eric Carle, this collection pairs simple text with friendly characters and bright, colorful illustrations to encourage early reading experiences. The books introduce children to new words and concepts, helping expand vocabulary and comprehension. Connecting illustrations with text encourages critical thinking and cognitive development, while relatable stories and friendly characters promote empathy and emotional understanding. Designed for shared or independent book exploration in early learning environments, this eight-book collection gives infants, toddlers, and preschoolers opportunities to enjoy literature while building foundational language, literacy, comprehension, and thinking skills.

6 months & up. Encourage little ones to enjoy reading with these delightful cloth books. Each book is interactive with soft textures, crinkles, and sounds. Each book presents appropriate activities that promote curiosity, self-discovery and fine motor skills. Contents may vary.

3 months & up. Introduce your children to these classic rhymes with this wonderful set of Sing-A-Song Board Books for Individual or Classroom Reading. Sharing rhymes helps babies to begin to understand the natural patterns of speech. Your children will love singing and dancing along to these popular nursery rhymes with their friends or family. This set of board books promotes literacy, imagination, and early vocabulary skills. Each book contains thick pages that are easy for smaller hands to turn. Set of 10.

3 - 9 years. The Africa Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of Africa. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding as our Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the Africa Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes guide to presentation (download), masters for each Reader story (download), and African Readers (includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

3 - 9 years. The Antarctica Readers include 9 readers with stories pertaining to the continent of Antarctica. The continent readers allow emerging readers to read independently for content as they are studying a continent: these readers introduce phonetic elements with the same progression and color-coding the Waseca Reading Program. The 9 stories in the Antarctica Readers come with picture cards, text cards, and tyvek books, stored beautifully in the pockets of individual hardcover folios. Includes guide to presentation (download), masters for Reader story (download), Antarctica Readers (includes 9 booklets with 6 picture and 6 text cards for each booklet) with 10 brass icon clips and birch storage box.

These lap size board books are perfect for sharing and entertaining small groups of infants, toddlers and twos as well as with individual children that might have visual impairments. Designed for the younger child, these books are similar to big books for 3-5 year olds. These oversized board books also have larger pictures and larger print. A lap-sized book measures 10" x 9" as opposed to the traditional size of 5" x 5".

Birth & up. Start developing literacy and shape recognition skills early with this set of Black and White Board Books. These sturdy board books are full of high-contrast black and white pictures and objects with a few words interspersed throughout. This large format book is perfect for first reads. Great for engaging young babies.