Most Popular Books by Giuliano Ferri

Kids will love the BIG surprises that await in this interactive board book, with an animal hiding behind each double flap. Guess each animal and see its true size unfold! Is that a scary tiger—or just a playful kitten? A reaching earthworm—or a chameleon grabbing a snack? A sea anemone—or a giant puffer fish? This interactive board book offers so much for little animal lovers, as each spread folds out twice to reveal a larger-than-life creature practically leaping off the page. Toddlers who love guessing games will be delighted by the magnitude of the surprises in this developmentally appropriate book.

From the acclaimed creator of Brick by Brick and Peekaboo!: There’s a different animal hiding in each box of this interactive lift-the-flap board book. Follow the clues and lift the flaps to find each one! With fun patterns and footprints, young children will love figuring out who’s in each box before lifting that flap to find the answer. And the last box holds a special surprise.

Guess how I''m feeling? A peekaboo book and a primer on empathy, PEEK-A-MOOD invites children to open the flaps and explore our many emotions. Sometimes you may feel happy. Sometimes you may feel sad -- or angry, or scared, or silly. Whatever your mood, your face will show it. This clever board book uses shaped flaps to help children guess what each animal is feeling before revealing the answers. A final mirror spread allows them to show off how they feel, too.

Animals demonstrate how they use their five senses, including smelling the flowers, seeing the stars, and tasting fruit. Die-cuts invite children to explore the five senses, to experience the world around them, and express love. The final page has a velour element, adding a tactile interactive dimension to this story.

This celebration of the magic of nature teaches a gentle life lesson about the value of patience On his birthday, Luke, the little mouse, has so many wonderful presents. So when his grandfather gives him a seed, he is rather disappointed. But as Luke learns about patience, he begins to realize that this could become the best present ever!

“A tactile approach to exploring new worlds...A nice step-up once [babies] have grasped simple concepts and animals names.” - Wall Street Journal When it comes to fun surprises and visual puzzles, once is never enough! You never know what you’ll find when you turn the die-cut pages for a second look at the animals in this ingenious board book. A field of flowers hides a playful lion cub, buzzy bees turn out to be chasing a curious pig, two mice sneaking some cheese must creep around a sleeping cat. And what is that mysterious creature at the end? A child in disguise! The animals in this clever board book will have children looking twice—and more!—as they turn each die-cut page to see the scene transform. Here is a great way to have fun while practicing paying attention and looking closely.

"In this creatively designed board book, a mouse with a festive scarf contemplates a snowball, represented by a die-cut hole. As the mouse starts pushing it up a hill—the die-cut hole/snowball grows larger with every page . . . All ends well when the animals build a snowman together and decorate it with their combined accessories."—Shelf Awareness This classic holiday-season board book makes a perfect gift or stocking stuffer for babies and toddlers! A simple, wordless celebration of winter joy—with a delightful surprise ending What happens when you take a little snowball and try to make it bigger? You might roll it up a hill, you might even get some friends to help you roll it, until the snowball is huge. But what happens when gravity takes over? In this adorably hilarious, wordless board book, artist Giuliano Ferri uses clever die-cuts to bring humor and anticipation to a charming story of what happens when the snowball of your dreams goes off course.

“…great…brimming with humor and beauty and appropriate for the audience…..A satisfying layering of ideas and language with sturdy fold-out panels.”—Wall Street Journal Masks disguise and surprise in this playful lift-the-flap board book by Giuliani Ferri, the creator of Brick by Brick. An ABC Best Books for Young Readers selection At the masquerade party you never know who you''re going to find. Who''s behind that pirate''s mask? Who''s under that knight''s helmet? In this playful lift-the-flap board book, toddlers will love discovering the animals under- neath, and the alliterative text will give them lots of fun new words to learn. A great book to introduce Halloween to your toddler!

★ "Italian artist Ferri proves that the delights of peekaboo transcend language in a near-wordless board book that lets readers play the familiar game with seven animals.The concept couldn’t be simpler, but the warmth and personality that exude from Ferri’s wonderfully furry and fuzzy portraits give the sense that readers have just made half a dozen new animal friends, while a mirror insert ends the book with a playful surprise."—Publishers Weekly, starred review Children will love to play peekaboo with the adorable animals in this interactive board book See who’s hiding behind each flap as different animals appear from behind their paws (or wings). One by one you can uncover these beautifully rendered animals, and at the end you''ll find a special surprise. See if you can find . . . a fox, a bear, a cat, a porcupine, a dog, a pig, an owl, and . . . you!

"Subtly packaged anti-bullying and group empowerment for small fry."—Kirkus Reviews Power to the fishes! From the acclaimed creator of Brick by Brick comes a novelty board book to help toddlers stand up against bullies, with a team of little fish that together stop a bigger fish from gobbling up their friend. Board book master Giuliano Ferri has done it again, this time creating an impactful story of colorful, hungry fish who help themselves to their smaller brethren -- until a band of many small fish appears to fight off the very biggest predator. Each page features a die-cut hole of graduated size, so that every page turn adds to the lovely, multi-tiered central image. What at first seems like a simple fish-eat-fish tale has a happy surprise ending that celebrates standing strong against bullies, with a prompt for building community and collective action.

The best thing about being a vampire bat is scaring all the other animals. With enough practice, Manny hopes to become the scariest vampire bat in the world. But his world is rocked when his baby fangs fall out, and no one thinks he’s all that scary anymore. How will Manny handle this unexpected turn of events? This is a lighthearted look at what happens when things don’t go the way we plan, and how friendship can spring up in the most unexpected ways.

Little Tad loves being a tadpole so when he starts changing into a frog, he is not happy.

This lively board book features soccer-playing animals. Told with a simple text, it reads in the form of a sportscast and is full of both action words and animal names. Die cuts on every page keep the ball in the game. It’s the perfect little book for young readers who love to play!