Preschool / Early Learning / Kindergarten

The highest percentage of learning in a person's life happens during the first few years. But it's not book learning primarily—preschool kids learn to walk, talk, discern shapes and colors, count, draw, etc. by doing those things. At this stage it's more important to play games with them, tell them stories, read to them, and help them commit important information to memory than it is to instruct them formally.

Spending time with their children seems to be an increasingly lost practice among parents. Jobs, church functions, and any number of other obligations separates the family and diminishes the opportunities for gentle instruction. Children ought to be eased into formal learning, and not till they've been encouraged and allowed to develop tactilely.

Many of the books in this section are workbooks or focus on hands-on activities. Language and Thinking for Young Children by Ruth Beechick and Jeannie Nelson offers benchmarks and goals to achieve with your child. June Oberlander's Slow and Steady Get Me Ready is oriented more toward motor skills and basic knowledge and provides developmental activities for your child's first five years (see also Brain Rules for Baby and Active Baby, Healthy Brain). You really don't need a lot of books at this stage, though—be creative, work with what you have at hand, and always be looking for moments to guide your little ones.

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500 Five Minute Games
by Jackie Silberg
2011 Reprint from Gryphon House
for Nursery-1st grade
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Amazing Mazes
Original from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
Animal-Go-Round
by Johnny Morris
from DK Publishing
for Nursery-1st grade
in Zoology (Location: SCI-ZOOL)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Book of Crafts - First Grade
by Tara Luse
1st edition from Memoria Press
for 1st grade
$9.50 (1 in stock)
Circus Shapes
by Stuart J. Murphy
from HarperCollins
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Developing the Early Learner - 4 Volumes
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$30.60
Developing the Early Learner Level 1
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$8.50
Developing the Early Learner Level 2
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$8.50
Developing the Early Learner Level 3
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$8.50 $5.00 (2 in stock)
Developing the Early Learner Level 4
by Simone Bibeau
from Perception Publications, Inc.
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Developing the Early Learner (Location: PRE-DEV)
$8.50 $5.00 (3 in stock)
DK My Picture Art Class
by Nellie Shepherd
1st edition from DK Children
for Preschool-3rd grade
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Everybody Has a Body
by Robert E. Rockwell, et al.
from Gryphon House
for Nursery-1st grade
in Preschool Science (Location: PRE-SCI)
$5.00 (2 in stock)
EyeLike Letters
from Play Bac
for Preschool-2nd grade
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Firehouse - Coloring Book
Dover Coloring Books
by Cathy Beylon
from Dover Publications
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Preschool Coloring Books (Location: COL-PRE)
$3.99
For the Children's Hour
by Carolyn Sherwin Bailey, Clara M. Lewis
from Yesterday's Classics
for Nursery-1st grade
in Short Story Anthologies for Kids (Location: FIC-ANTH)
$18.95
Greatest Gymnast of All
by Stuart J. Murphy
from HarperCollins
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$4.00 (1 in stock)
Hush
by Veronica Lake
from Zondervan
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Kids' Multicultural Art Book
by Alexandra M. Terzian
from Williamson Publishing Company
for Preschool-3rd grade
in Art & Drawing Reference (Location: ELE-ARTREF)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Kumon World Geography
from Kumon Publishing
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$8.46
Language and Thinking for Young Children
by Ruth Beechick
from Mott Media
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
$3.00 (3 in stock)
Mother's Little Helper Cookbook
by Mary Jane Boll
from Rod & Staff Publishers, Inc.
for Preschool-1st grade
in Cooking for Kids (Location: COOK-KID)
$3.20 (1 in stock)
Music Enrichment
First Edition from Memoria Press
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Music Education & Reference (Location: ELE-MUSREF)
$8.50 (1 in stock)
Music Together: Sticks - Book and CD
by Kenneth Guilmartin, Lili Levinowitz
from Music Together
for Preschool-2nd grade
$4.00 (1 in stock)
My Big Book of Mazes
by Shinobu Akaishi
from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$11.01
My Book of Addition: Ages 5-6-7
Workbook from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Cursive Writing Letters
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Cursive Writing Words
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Lowercase Letters
from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Mazes: Animals
by Shinobu Akaishi
from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Mazes: Around the World
1st edition from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Mazes: Things That Go!
from Kumon Publishing
for ages 5-7
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Measurement: Length
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Measurement: Volume
Act Csm Wk from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Measurement: Weight
Act Csm Wk from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76 $5.00 (1 in stock)
My Book of Money: Dollars & Cents
1st edition from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
My Book of Multiplication
Workbook from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book Of Number Games 1-100
from Kumon Publishing
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book Of Numbers 1-120
from Kumon Publishing
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Simple Addition: Ages 4-5-6
Workbook from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Simple Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.00
My Book of Simple Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.75
My Book of Subtraction
from Kumon Publishing
for 1st-3rd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$7.61
My Book of Telling Time
from Kumon Publishing
for Preschool-1st grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76 $5.00 (1 in stock)
My First Book of Money Counting Coins
from Kumon Publishing
for Kindergarten-2nd grade
in Kumon Basic Skills (Location: PRE-KUM)
$6.76
Nursery Rhymes
Double Delight
by Mary Novick, illustrated by Jenny Hale
from Little Hare Books
for Preschool-1st grade
$4.50 (1 in stock)
Old MacDonald Had a Farm
by Robert Quackenbush
from J.B. Lippincott Co.
for Nursery-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Pattern Animals
by Judi Magarian-Gold, Sandra Mogensen
from Learning Resources
for Kindergarten-3rd grade
in Math Games & Activities (Location: MATR-GAM)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Preschool Math at Home
by Kate Snow
from Well-Trained Mind Press
for Preschool-1st grade
in Math with Confidence (Location: MAT-WTM)
$21.95
Story S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R-S
by Shirley C. Raines & Robert J. Canady
from Gryphon House
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
$9.00 (2 in stock)
Story S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-R-S for the Primary Grades
by Shirley C. Raines & Robert J. Canady
from Gryphon House
for Kindergarten-4th grade
$9.00 (1 in stock)
Stuff That Fun Is Made Of
from Emerald Books
for Nursery-2nd grade
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Summer Activities
by Fiona Watt
from Scholastic Inc.
for Preschool- 3rd Grade
$2.50 (1 in stock)
Take Heart, My Child
by Ainsley Earhardt
First Edition from Simon and Schuster
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Then and Now
An Usborne Talkabout Book
by Heather Amery
Revised from Usborne
for Nursery-1st grade
$3.15 (2 in stock)
Things People Do
by Anne Civardi & Stephen Cartwright
from Usborne
for Preschool-2nd grade
$8.10 (1 in stock)
Through Your Eyes
by Ainsley Earhardt
First Edition from Simon and Schuster
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Picture Books (Location: PICTURE)
$10.00 (1 in stock)
Usborne Lift-the-Flap Questions and Answers about your Body
by Katie Daynes, illustrted by Marie-Eve Tremblay
from Usborne
for Preschool-2nd grade
in Human Anatomy & Physiology (Location: SCI-ANA)
$6.75 (1 in stock)
Young Child as Scientist
by Christine Chaille, Lory Britain
2nd edition from Allyn and Bacon
for Preschool-4th grade
in Preschool Science (Location: PRE-SCI)
$9.50 (1 in stock)