School Zone - Guess Who? Colors & Shapes Board Book - Ages 1 month+, Baby, Toddler, Preschool, Holiday, Christmas, Reading, Writing, Math, and More (Holiday Board Book) - Hardcover

School Zone; Joan Hoffman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1681472031 ISBN 13: 9781681472034

Publisher: School Zone Publishing, 2018

Synopsis

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BOOK FEATURES

• 18 pages
• For ages 1 month+
• This jolly little board book introduces early reading skills to toddlers and preschoolers
• Little ones will practice identifying and naming shapes and colors
• Durable pages with rounded corners are designed for little hands to easily manage
• Adorable, colorful illustrations will delight the littlest learners
• This seasonally-themed book makes a great stocking stuffer
• Portable and perfect for on-the-go learning!

DELIGHTFUL - Who is the colorful and mysterious winter visitor? He has a red licorice smile, a green circle button, a pink square button, and more. Help your child guess the surprise from the clues inside. Identifying and naming shapes and colors are important skills to get kids ready for reading, writing, math, and overall school success. Board books are a great way to introduce infants to reading and to continue cultivating it with toddlers and preschoolers. With this Guess Who? Colors & Shapes board book preschoolers will love naming pictures of things both familiar and new. Durable pages with rounded corners are designed for little hands to easily manage.

BOARD BOOKS - Board books are made for the littlest learners and are just right for short attention spans. They also develop curiosity and an interest in reading by presenting stories that invite looking, pointing, and touching. These board books use bright colors and patterns with familiar images and are made to fit in baby and toddler hands. Easy-to-grip, easy-to-turn, tough-to-tear pages make them ideal for rough-and-tumble, over-and-over-again use.

RESULTS - Our learning materials have helped educate three generations of kids, creating lifelong learners, and the legacy continues. Digital content, flash cards, workbooks, readers, toys, and games all are crafted through a child's eyes while integrating parent and teacher standards.

PREPARATION - Let us help you prepare your young child for the next grade level with our workbooks, flash cards, books and a Little Scholar Tablet. Keep kids "classroom ready" with these great supplemental learning tools and more!

AWARD WINNING - School Zone content has won The Parents' Choice Foundation Award, Tillywig Toy Awards, Brainchild Award, Family Choice Award, Mom's Choice Awards Honoring Excellence, Gold Star Toy Scholastic Parent and Child Award and many more.

School Zone Publishing - Nourishing Young Minds

OUR STORY - Almost 40 years ago, long-time educators James Hoffman, Ed.D., and his wife Joan Hoffman, M.A., began a retail supply outlet for teachers, then soon identified a need for at-home learning materials to help parents support and supplement their children's classroom instruction. School Zone Publishing fast emerged as the market leader in workbooks and flashcards for preschoolers through sixth graders.

School Zone remains family-owned, focused on excellence, responsive to customers, alert to emerging technology, and committed to the community. We continually update our products with new features and content, reflective of changing standards, evolving teaching methods, and overall best practices. As just one example, we update our workbook curriculum on an as-needed basis to address changing standards such as those presented by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) and Common Core.

About this title

About the Author:

For nearly 40 years, School Zone has helped make learning fun! Our research-based content, developed by leading educators, delivers award-winning, state-of-the-art products digital and print for individual learning styles and goals. Every product placed in a child's hands is brimming with color, content, and creativity. In every detail, innovation meets imagination and timeless tradition. In that same spirit, School Zone both embodies success and embraces possibility, stepping boldly into new media and platforms to connect with kids where they are. Parents appreciate the quality and attention to detail. The company continually updates materials with new features and content, reflective of changing standards, evolving teaching methods, and overall best practices. The result? Great learning at home and in the classroom.

Joan Hoffman, M.A., is the author and co-author of hundreds popular storybooks and workbooks for children. Among the titles are Peter’s Dream, I Don’t Like Peas, and The New Bike (the latter two published under the pen name Marie Vinje), the Get Ready for Preschool, Kindergarten, and First Grade workbook trio, along with the entire Get Ready, Little Thinker, I Know It!, Try-n-Spy, and Little Busy Book workbook series.

She is also co-founder, along with her late husband James Hoffman, Ph.D., of School Zone Publishing. Visionary in business, she has long looked at the world through a child’s eyes, infusing her stories and lessons with joy and relatability.

 As a mother of 4 back in the ‘70s, like moms the world over throughout history, she wanted what was best for her children. And she knew that teachers didn’t have the time to give her kids everything they needed. As an elementary school teacher, Hoffman worked hard to give her students what they needed to learn. And parents would ask her what they could do to help. That’s why she started School Zone—to help give children every possible chance to reach their potential. 

She brought retail experience gleaned from previously founding and managing two regional educational book and supply stores for teachers and parents. Her husband lent his blended talents of educator and entrepreneur. A professor of education who also had first-hand experience as an elementary teacher, he was involved in teacher education programs at several colleges and had served at the helm of a company that published classroom materials.

Combining rock-solid editorial judgment and creative instincts with a thorough understanding of early education, Joan Hoffman was an exemplary proponent of design thinking long before it became a conceptual label. An innovative problem-solver, she has always sought to reach out to end users and challenge convention. Separating fleeting trends from legitimate advances has been essential to her company’s longevity.

The results speak for themselves. With the next generation—both son Jonathan and daughter Jennifer—taking on creative and strategic leadership roles in the company their parents started, School Zone seamlessly integrated digital learning platforms. The company received Apple’s exclusive Human Interface Design Excellence Award for software development, and its apps were part of the first-generation iPad launch in 2010. School Zone’s flagship product, the Little Scholar Learning Tablet, has earned industry-wide recognition and awards, as has its online learning destination Anywhere Teacher. Inspired by mom’s story-telling excellence, son Jonathan continued that legacy with Charlie & Company, an original series for ages 3-7, available on Oznnoz, Kidoodle.tv, ToonGoggles, BatteryPop, Ameba, and Highbrow.

Joan Hoffman says, “It is incredibly rewarding to see the children and grandchildren of some of our original customers enjoying our ever-evolving books, apps, flash cards, games, music, and other products—both print and digital.” 

In 2019 School Zone celebrates its 40th anniversary, spanning portions of five decades and having sold more than 370 million educational products. Hoffman continues to be hands-on in the company, still writing, still envisioning, and still putting kids, parents, and teachers first.

Review:

I bought this for my son when he was 18 months along with a lot of other popular first readers. This book and most of the books in the same line are very entertaining compared to the other first readers. The illustrations are detailed enough to discuss and the stories are really funny. It is so much fun to read these books to my son because he can join in with the words and discuss the pictures. He also reads them to his teddy bears. 9 months later I find myself buying second copies of books in the series because they are so worn from me reading them several times a day. :-) --Amazon

I bought this for my now-34 mo. old son this last Christmas, as he is a passionate drummer/percussionist at this age already. He LOVES this book. He's already reading it with me and can "read" it himself, just by looking at the pages. The illustrations are phenomenal and quite humorous and after reading it umpteen times now, he and I both *just* saw details we'd never seen before the other night; they allow for so much to talk about with your child. This book makes me want to get more in the Start to Read series. --Amazon

About this edition

• Publisher: School Zone Publishing
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1681472031
• ISBN 13: 9781681472034
• Binding: Board book
• Number of pages: 18
• Editor: Shannon M. Mullally Ph.D.
• Illustrator: Terry Workman