My Big Coloring Book

One big picture per page — never a sheet of twelve tiny ones. Forty-two pictures a toddler can actually colour: cats, dogs, elephants and owls, whales and octopuses, apples, cookies and cocoa, the sun, the moon and a rainbow, kites and yo-yos, and a holiday section with a Christmas tree, a pumpkin, a turkey and a snowman. Each page carries its word at the bottom, dashed with a start dot, so a child who is ready gets a little reading and writing with the crayons — and one who is not simply colours. Plus three mazes at the back that grow from easy to tricky.