My Big Pink Book of Everything

If you know a little girl who loves pink, here's a combo of learning and fun activities just for her. The book cleverly guides kids through classroom prep activities such as word recognition and early math skills like counting, shapes, recognizing numbers, matching, finding opposites, and much more, while using themes young girls are innately enthused over, such as dressing up, beach trips, and choosing foods for a picnic.

In one spread, the reader is asked to count favorite things, such as hair ties, colorful erasers, markers, candies, and barrettes. In another, she points to all the striped clothes or matches patterns. Photos of girls are nicely balanced between different activities: fishing, making music, sweeping, playing soccer, gardening, cooking, dancing, drawing. Imaginations are challenged, too, with a "help this girl find her fairy things" game and an activity to match the names and images of a mermaid's friends.

MY BIG PINK BOOK OF EVERYTHING should give young girls and their parents hours of enjoyable shared experiences.