Most Popular Books by Tana Hoban

Thirty familiar signs fill the pages of this handsome book, and invite the viewer to COME IN! "Right on target."--Booklist.

While walking through the park, a child sees a wondrous variety of animals.

Black and white photos illustrate fifteen pairs of opposites such as front-back, first-last, push-pull.

Whenever you are -- inside or outside -- there are shapes to discover. And with Tana Hoban''s help you will begin to see them. Look around. How many circles, squares, stars, triangles, hearts, and rectangles can you see? They are everywhere!

Tana Hoban never ceases to mesmerize and stimulate her young admirers. Using her unmistakable full-color photographs and an intriguing die-cut format, she has created a striking concept book that will have young viewers scrutinizing and thinking about what they see -- and don''t see. In the tradition of Just Look and Take Another Look, here is yet another window of discovery to our everyday world.

Photographs of familiar objects are first viewed through a cut-out hole, then in their entirety.

Share this book with the baby in your life. It’s never too early to read together! From the eminent photographer and acclaimed book creator Tana Hoban, this bestselling large format board book features thirty-four bold black-and-white high-contrast images to engage babies and very young children. Tana Hoban’s board books have sold more than a million copies and are beloved by teachers, librarians, parents, and readers. A perfect gift for new parents and babies. Before they are able to clearly see colors, babies respond to the strong contrast between black and white, which makes this the perfect first book for young, developing brains. Experiencing bold black-and-white contrast helps stimulate development in the retina and the optic nerve. This large-format, sturdy board book features high-contrast art from four bestselling Tana Hoban board books: Black on White, White on Black, Who Are They?, and What Is That? These classic and popular books have sold more than one million copies. About Black on White and White on Black, Publishers Weekly said, “Hoban’s compositions are so supple and her layouts so well balanced that she casts kind of a spell . . . magical.”

If you know the 26 letters of the alphabet and can count to 99 -- or are just learning -- you''ll love Tana Hoban''s brilliant creation. This innovative concept book is two books in one!

What color do you see? Red? Yellow? Blue? Here is a concept book young children can grow with, as they explore colors, sizes, shapes, and relationships with the master of the photo-concept book '' Tana Hoban.

What are the colors of your world? Where do you see these colors? Have you seen them anywhere else? Join Tana Hoban for hours of fun and colorful investigations.

Brilliant photographs present a world of possible opposites. "Beautiful, elegantly composed, nourishing to eye and mind."--Kirkus Reviews. "Another winner from an artist with a seemingly unlimited imagination."--Horn Book.

An innovative concept book that is two books in one. Learn the alphabet A to Z and count 1 to 99 using a combination of coins.

Tana Hoban introduces the youngest viewer to the idea of size relativity. "Hoban demonstrates once again her mastery of elements of composition, such as color, texture, and balance."--Horn Book.

Share these familiar shapes with your baby. It is never too early to look and talk together!

Color photographs introduce signs seen on streets.

Over twenty-five years ago Tana Hoban stunned the children''s book world with her innovative black-and-white photographs in Count and See. Now she returns to the subject, and her glorious full-color pictures add a new dimension to the excitement and fun of counting when numbers are still fresh and something to be mastered. From one to one hundred -- Let''s Count!

Photographs illustrate the kinds of equipment and earthmovers found at construction sites.

Share these animals and their babies with your baby. It is never to early to look and talk together!

"In this wordless picture book....Attention-grabbing color photographs float in the middle of each page, accompanied by a color graph that pictorially represents the proportions of the various colors found in each picture. The result is an engaging color game with many uses. Very young children will enjoy naming the pictured objects, while older readers will be drawn into exploring the colors'' varying tones. A book children will come back to over and over." -- Horn Book.

"This imaginative, wordless book of color photographs is a visual treat, offering witty and subtle sets of images for enriching the eyes of children and adults....[A] satisfying, intriguing book."--School Library Journal. Shadows and reflections are all around us -- under our feet, over our heads, directly in front of us. But only Tana Hoban can make us look at -- and see -- what is right before our eyes. She makes us look with our minds and hearts and imaginations -- and our surroundings are forever changed.

By viewing nine subjects both in full-page photos and through die-cut pages, the reader learns that things may be perceived in different ways.

MIchael Goes to the Doctor is a pictorial book demonstrating a child''s trip to the ophthalmologist. It is a book useful to ophthalmologists educating them an approach to a child examination. It is also useful to parents to understand what to expect when they take their child to the eye doctor

The activities of a kitten in text and unusual photographs.

The geometric concepts of circles and squares are shown in photographs of wheels, signs, pots, and other familiar objects.

A picture book of photographs of round objects.

Tana Hoban knows what fires the eyes and minds of her young admirers the world over. And with every click of her camera, she zooms in on a new discovery--like this treasure trove, a full-color lesson on quantities. Look at the stacks of brightly colored teacups, the racks of shiny new shoes, the bin full of mouth-watering candies. Where are there more? Or fewer? Or where is there less? The questions and answers depend on what (and how) you see. Like the distinctive photographs, it''s all a matter of vision.

A concept book in which photographs of objects appear in part, as a whole, & then as a part within a composition.

Share these familiar objects with your baby. It is never too early to look and talk together!

Photography of familiar objects and activities introduce a variety of geometric shapes to young children.

Photographs of common objects with the color of each object printed below introduce the reader to colors.

Photographs, created without a camera, of familiar household objects.

Come to the zoo with Tana Hoban! Look at the animals. What are they? What are they like? The youngest visitor to this zoo can identify the creatures and describe them -- starting with Tana Hoban''s words and adding to them. And, for those who want it, there is a glossary that includes where each animal lives and what it eats. Tana Hoban''s stunning photographs will captivate young naturalists everywhere.

While babies and toddlers enjoy a fun-filled splash in the bath, they learn all about the vivid world of colors.

The coins are shiny. But they are also round, and there are five of them. One is over another, and one is under. The tree is rough. It is also brown and tall. And how about the stones? And the turtle? And the cotton candy? All the objects in this stunning book are textured -- they are rough, or smooth, or shiny, or sticky, or wet, or furry. But they are also lots and lots of other things. The more you look at the pictures, the more you will see. How much can you tell about each photograph? Once you start, it will be hard to stop!

Catching heavy-duty machinery in action.

Cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. Sounds sophisticated? Only until you look at Tana Hoban''s incomparable photographs and realize that those shapes are the stuff of everyday life. They are all around us all the time. In our houses, on our streets, in our hands. In yet another breathtaking book, Tana Hoban wakes us up to our world and makes us see it.

Symbols are everywhere, and children don''t need to read or to speak a word of the English language to understand this universal language. How many of these twenty-seven wordless signs can you read? Tana Hoban opens our eyes to how much we "read" every day without words.

Photographs of common objects and events illustrate the numbers one through one hundred.

Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.