Every flap in this book plays the same wonderful trick in two directions: lift a picture flap and the word is underneath, lift a word flap and there is the picture. Each delightful scene is filled with them, and a two year old matching bus to bus and cloud to cloud is building word recognition without anyone calling it practice.

Felicity Brooks builds the scenes out of a toddler's actual world, buses, benches, houses, trees, birds, kites, cars, hills and clouds, nine of them previewed as flaps right on the cover. It is an ideal way for beginner readers to practice word recognition, and it provides plenty to talk about together, which is where vocabulary really grows.

Sixteen big board pages illustrated by Corrine Bittler, for word collectors aged two and up. For the same hands, the Fingertrail ABC board book is also at Stellar Luxe and makes the natural next step toward letters.