🎓 Skills Your Child Will Develop

• 🌍 World Knowledge & Background Knowledge — Nonfiction and information-rich picture books build background knowledge that accelerates reading comprehension — children who know more about the world understand more of what they read across every subject area.
• 🌈 Imagination & Creativity — Entering a book's world — imagining the setting, characters, and events — exercises creative and narrative thinking that enriches pretend play, story creation, and the ability to generate original ideas.
• 😊 Love of Reading — Every positive reading experience — a funny book, an exciting story, a perfectly timed cuddle — builds the reading identity and intrinsic motivation that sustains literacy development through the independent reading years.
• 🖼️ Visual Literacy — Reading pictures — interpreting what they show, what details they add, how they relate to the words — develops visual literacy: the ability to extract meaning from images that underlies comprehension of graphs, diagrams, and media.

Does your preschooler love the zoo? Do you constantly hear animal sounds in the back seat of the car? Does your preschooler sing "Old McDonald Had a Farm" relentlessly? Preschoolers are fascinated by animals. Here you will find preschool books about animals of all kinds, including jungle animals, farm animals, sea creatures, and more. Preschool books about animals will provide hours of fun and learning for you and your preschooler. Warm up your voice because it's impossible to read preschool books about animals without letting out a few roars, oinks, and moos!

Warthogs Paint - A Messy Color Book
by Pamela Duncan Edwards
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Froggy Bath Preschool Nature Craft
Why should our feathered friends have all the fun? Make this Froggy Bath preschool nature craft for your backyard and see what creatures come to play. It’s quick, easy and your preschooler will love to check it everyday to see what might be bathing or having a sip of water. With a little variation you can turn this preschool nature craft into a bird feeder as well!

Worms in the Dirt
Make a fun and delicious food craft to go along with preschool science lessons on worms or dirt.

Walking with the Animals
This preschool animal poem will keep children interested in learning about the animals all around them. Preschoolers and educators will find that the physical movements in this poem stimulate preschoolers' imagination as they pretend to be among the animals. Walking with the Animals can be easily done with large groups of preschool age children.