Uh oh! Baby needs a clean diaper. Mama diapers and plays with Baby while lovingly singing her own version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." Diaper changing has never been such fun! As the newest book in the Small Talk Books® series, Twinkle, Twinkle, Diaper You! focuses on the first stage of a child's language development and encourages parents to talk to their babies during everyday chores. Even a diaper change offers the perfect opportunity to foster a special connection. Little babies will be enchanted by the sparkling stars throughout the book.

Uh oh! Baby's diaper is dirty. Mama diapers and plays with Baby while lovingly singing her own version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star." Diaper changing has never been so fun! As the newest book in the Small Talk Books® series, Twinkle, Twinkle, Diaper You! focuses on the first stage of a child's language development and encourages parents to talk to their baby during everyday chores. Even a diaper change offers the perfect opportunity to foster a special connection. Little babies will be enchanted by the sparkling stars throughout the book.

A young boy and his grandma are baking a cake together. Little ones will love experiencing the different steps in baking a cake: helping to find the supplies, measuring, and combining the ingredients and then frosting the cake. Speaking in short sentences, the little boy talks with his grandma as they work together.

A father and his toddler shop for a pet fish.

It is cleanup time, and Daddy and his little one are putting away books, blocks, teddy bears, and train cars, washing hands, and preparing for dinner--all while having fun with math! As Daddy talks with his toddler, he uses spatial-relationship math words and phrases like up, down, inside, outside, next to, and under to reinforce his young learner's understanding. When it is dinnertime, the little one proudly demonstrates an understanding of down when helping to set the table and up while enjoying the first delicious bite!A playful story that models engaging conversations between parent and child, Clean Up, Up, Up! includes a note by early childhood education expert Susan C. Levine that shows parents and caregivers how everyday activities offer rich opportunities to teach early spatial math concepts.This book is based on work supported in part by TERC under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

Mama and her toddler turn an outing to the grocery store into a fun opportunity to talk, and learn a little math along the way. Mama fills their cart with items in quantities of one and two, and lets her baby hold each item, connecting each action to the number of hands baby has. In this way baby begins to understand simple math. Back home Mama shares one banana between the two of them and baby proudly recognizes two pieces, thus showing an understanding of the concept of two.This joyful story shows adults how to talk and introduce children to the concept of numbers and how math is part of daily life.

Originally published: South Africa: David Philip Publishers, 2014 under the title, Books 'n bricks at Manyano School.