Below are 4 recent board books from Little Tiger: thanks to the publisher for sending them for review.

Happy Dog, Sad Dog
Sam Lloyd

Using dogs of various colours in turn, little humans are introduced to a series of opposites: big and little, clean and dirty, happy and sad, hot and cold, hairy and bald, awake and asleep and the final spread has no dog on the verso and lots of dogs on the recto. Bold bright colours and Sam Lloyd’s alluring canine images will help very young children become familiar with simple words.

Little Ghost Little Ghost What Can You See?
Pintachan

Little humans can assist the little ghost to discover what is hidden beneath the flaps on which are depicted in turn a purple witch’s hat, a sturdy-looking wooden door, a pumpkin-shaped basket, a cauldron and finally, a pumpkin patch beside a gate. A friendly-looking spider acts as the little ghost’s interrogator on each double spread.
With its repeat refrain, at every turn of the page, young children will soon be joining in with the text and after several readings aloud some may start reading it for themselves.

Noisy Nursery Rhymes
illustrated by Laura Silveira

Five popular nursery rhymes (one per double spread) are presented herein. They are in order: Incy Wincy Spider, The wheels on the bus, Old Macdonald had a farm, Row, row row your boat, Mary had a little lamb and Twinkle, twinkle, little star. There’s a tactile patch embedded into an image on each spread, which when pressed plays the tune of each rhyme.
A fun way for small children to learn/reinforce the words of the songs as well as develop their fine motor skills.

100 First Words
Hettie Cox and Shutterstock

One of the ‘My First Lift and Look’ series introduces a hundred words. Each double spread has a theme – colours, wild animals from hot and cold places, 2D shapes, ‘things that go’ – modes of transport on land, in the air and through the water, favourite foods – savoury and sweet, clothes for indoors and outside, animals that live on a farm, things to play with, things to see outside come rain or shine and finally, items found in the home.
There’s a flap on each recto with a question and the answer to each is found by lifting the flap.
A playful way to help little ones extend their vocabulary.