Half the battle of successful landscaping is starting with the healthiest specimens - not, as we sometimes prefer, the largest. Learn how to inspect nursery plants from the crown to the ground for evidence of quality and health, and how to estimate root health by checking for suckers on single-trunk trees, root flare, surface roots, and the "tippy test."

A mother dog finds eight other animals hiding around the house before finding her lost puppy. Flaps conceal the animals.

Readers can see a word and its meaning expressed through a picture, then lift the flap to see the opposite word and its meaning. Through a series of ingenious die-cut pages, the reader discovers things that are the opposite of what they seem: A black bat transformed into a white ghost, a sunny day that becomes a starry night.

In this wordless book with interactive flaps, a little girl named Flora forms a friendship with two peacocks as the three learn to dance together.

Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.

A wearable board book with die-cut holes, which invite the reader to try out the six bearded masks.

A brand-new batch of rubber ducks is loaded onto a ship and sent off to be delivered to children everywhere. But when a storm strikes, 10 little ducks are tossed into the sea and swept away in 10 different directions -- with some wonderfully unexpected adventures along the way. Come ride the waves as legendary children's book author and illustrator Eric Carle explores numbers, directions, opposites, geography, animals, and more in an extraordinary...

Do sharks stamp? Do sharks stomp? All I know is sharks go CHOMP! With flaps to lift that reveal the sounds each animal makes, this fun board book introduces preschoolers to singing whales, roaring polar bears, snappy crabs, and growling hippos, along with the chompy title shark and other popular creatures. A two-gatefold grand finale brings all the animals together once more!

Contrasts the world as viewed in sunlight with the quiet night world in moonlight.

Through simple facts, prompts, and activities, children are introduced to the wonderful world of bugs and insects! They'll learn how each bug and insect is unique; where to find them; and even how to make a wormery of their own to study earthworms up close. Young readers will discover how some bugs pollinate flowers, what kinds of bugs and insects like to live near water, and much more. This sturdy board book, which includes shaped lift-the-flaps...