New Releases by Valorie Fisher

From the author of the popular Look and Cook series—these easy-to-follow and engaging visual instructions will have kids ages 4 to 8 ready to play chess! Designed for children who can’t yet read, Look and Play Chess is an essential introduction to the game for children ages 4 to 8. Following the same easy-to-read visual layout of the Look and Cook series (a New York Times Holiday Gift Guide selection), this book features engaging and beginner-friendly explanations of chess pieces, moves, and strategies, making learning fun and accessible for young players. Key features for kids include: Step-by-step visual instructions: Let kids who can’t yet read and visual learners guide their own understanding of the game. A guide to chess basics: Learn the essential pieces, rules, moves, and battle strategies. Family-friendly activity: Learning and playing chess can be fun for the whole family!

In this fourth title in the popular Look and Cook series, these easy-to-follow and engaging visual recipes will have kids ages 4 to 8 making delicious dishes and snacks using fresh farmers'' market produce! Designed for children who can’t yet read, Look and Cook Fresh: A First Book of Recipes in Pictures is a must-have introduction to cooking for kids ages 4 to 8. Following the same easy-to-read visual layout of Look and Cook Snacks (a New York Times Holiday Gift Guide selection) and Look and Cook Breakfast (A Good Housekeeping Best Book), this cookbook features delicious and wholesome dishes using fresh fruit and vegetables as the main ingredients. Key features include: Step-by-step visual instructions: Let kids who can’t yet read and visual learners guide their own cooking journey. A guide to kitchen basics: Learn skills like mixing and measuring, and proper handling of safe-to-use kitchen equipment. Family-friendly recipes: Delicious, easy, and nutritious dishes for the entire family to enjoy making and eating together!

In this third title in the popular Look and Cook series, these easy-to-follow and engaging visual recipes will have kids ages 4 to 8 making their favorite desserts and sweet treats for the whole family to enjoy! Designed for children who can’t yet read, Look and Cook Sweet: A First Book of Recipes in Pictures is a must-have introduction to cooking for kids ages 4 to 8. Following the same easy-to-read visual layout of Look and Cook Snacks (a New York Times Holiday Gift Guide selection) and Look and Cook Breakfast (A Good Housekeeping Best Kids'' Book) this cookbook features delicious and wholesome sweet treats and desserts for the whole family to enjoy—chocolate chip cookies, apple cake, and more! Key features for kids include: Step-by-step visual instructions: Let kids who can’t yet read and visual learners guide their own cooking journey. A guide to kitchen basics: Learn skills like mixing and measuring, and proper handling of safe-to-use kitchen equipment. Family-friendly recipes: Delicious, easy, and nutritious sweet dishes for the entire family to enjoy making and eating together!

A Good Housekeeping Best Kids’ Book of 2024! In this companion title to Look and Cook Snacks, these easy-to-follow and engaging visual recipes will have kids ages 4–8 making their favorite breakfast dishes for the whole family to enjoy! Designed for children who can’t yet read, Look and Cook Breakfast: A First Book of Recipes in Pictures is a must-have introduction to cooking for kids ages 4 to 8. Following the same easy-to-read visual layout of Look and Cook Snacks, this cookbook features delicious sweet and savory breakfast recipes for the whole family to enjoy—homemade granola, zucchini muffins, and more! Key features for kids include: Step-by-step visual instructions: Let kids who can’t yet read and visual learners guide their own cooking journey. A guide to kitchen basics: Learn skills like mixing and measuring, and proper handling of safe-to-use kitchen equipment. Family-friendly recipes: Delicious, easy, and healthy breakfast dishes for the entire family to enjoy making and eating together!

Featured in the 2023 New York Times Holiday Gift Guide! The first of its kind, Look and Cook Snacks is an entirely visual guide to cooking. Designed for children who can’t yet read, this is a must-have introduction to the joys of cooking for kids ages 4 to 8. From scrumptious fruit smoothies to easy-peasy pizzas, each recipe will let your kid will take charge of their discovery of the kitchen! Key features for kids include: Step-by-step visual instructions— Let kids who can’t yet read and visual learners guide their own cooking journey. A guide to kitchen basics— Learn skills like mixing and measuring, and proper handling of safe-to-use kitchen equipment. Family-friendly recipes— Delicious, easy, and healthy snacks for the entire family to enjoy making and eating together!

From peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to macaroni and cheese, Valorie Fisher explores the science behind our most delicious dishes! Valorie Fisher dives deep into the science of what we eat and where ingredients come from by exploring what happens behind the scenes of favorite, everyday foods like pizza, honey, milk, maple syrup, vegetable soup, and more! With the help of bold, eye-catching yet simple graphics, inquisitive minds will love discovering what makes popcorn pop, why bread rises, and how bees make honeycomb. With this book peppered with facts like how many eggs a hen lays in a year and how many gallons of sap it takes to make one gallon of syrup, readers will be fascinated by all the amazing things they never knew about the food they eat! Now You Know What You Eat also includes a glossary, and a graphic about the food groups, as well as an introduction to vitamins and minerals. With a growing focus on STEM for this early age group, this book encourages readers to ask their own questions about the world around them, and to fall in love with discovering the answers!

See below for English description. Savez-vous pourquoi votre ombre change de forme au fil de la journée? Ou comment est produit le bruit assourdissant d''un sifflet? Ou encore pourquoi un ballon en caoutchouc rebondit? Vous trouverez les réponses à toutes ces questions et bien d''autres dans ce livre épatant, le premier de la nouvelle série Je comprends! This book will answer questions kids have long wanted answers to, and go on to answer questions they didn''t even know they had! Do you know why your shadow changes shape throughout the day? Do you know how a whistle makes that trilling sound? How about why a rubber ball bounces? All of these questions and more are explained in this exciting book, the first of two in the Je comprends! series. With the growing focus on STEM for this early age group, Je comprends! Comment ça marche is perfectly timed to reach early readers and instill a love of STEM from day one. Original title: Now You Know How It Works

Explore the mechanics of everyday things like toasters, toilets and kites with fun and simple infographics sure to change how a reader views the world. Valorie Fisher takes infographics to a new level with bright, colorful visuals that are perfect for young, inquisitive minds. Her eye-catching mix of photographs and illustrations compels readers to dive in and explore how things work—from paper airplanes to straws, crayons to kites, pencils to boats. This book will answer questions kids have long wanted answers to and go on to answer questions they didn''t even know they had! Do you know why your shadow changes shape throughout the day? Do you know how a whistle makes that trilling sound? How about why a rubber ball bounces? All these questions and more are explained in this exciting book, the first of two in the Now You Know series. With the growing focus on STEM for this early age group, Now You Know: How It Works is perfectly timed to reach that early reader and instill a love of STEM from day one. Praise for Now You Know: How It Works A Junior Library Guild Selection "A bright and stimulating introduction to the mechanics and makeup of everyday objects and phenomena . . . An engaging and visually tempting starting point to prepare kids for more in-depth titles like David Macaulay''s The Way Things Work Now." — School Library Journal "This educational guide introduces the mechanics behind familiar objects, machines, and physical phenomena . . . Fisher introduces complex concepts concisely while gently suggesting to readers that there is a world of knowledge to be discovered in everyday things." — Publishers Weekly

"Valorie Fisher takes infographics to a new level with bright, colorful visuals that are perfect for young, inquisitive minds. Her eye-catching mix of photographs and illustrations compels readers to dive in and explore how things work -- from paper airplanes to straws, crayons to kites, pencils to boats, this book will answer questions kids have long wanted answers to, and go on to answer questions they didn''t even know they had! Do you know why your shadow changes shape throughout the day? Do you know how a whistle makes that trilling sound? How about why a rubber ball bounces? All of these questions and more are explained in this exciting book, the first of two in the series. With the growing focus on STEM for this early age group, Now You Know How It Works is perfectly timed to reach that early reader and instill a love of STEM from day one."--

Meet my big brother. He''s AMAZING! STUPENDOUS! ENORMOUS! I should know, I watch him all day long.

Can you tie your shoe? Write your letters and numbers? Make your bed? Or set the table? Can you do it by yourself? Children and parents alike will rejoice as 4- to 6-year-olds achieve these important childhood milestones (and many more) with the help of this engaging and fun picture book. Award-winning author-illustrator Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way. Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to common childhood tasks, while kids will revel in the joy of independence.

Believe it or not, once Bessie balanced a tower of 8 beets. But today, when she tries to balance 8 beets . . . 3 fall. How many beets does Bessie balance today? A clever text and imaginative art mesh to create playful, simple math problems right on target for ages 5–99 . . . anyone who loves the magic of numbers! In this School Library Journal Best Book of the Year, budding young mathematicians can help Heloise add her dimes, nickels, and pennies to see which hat in Madame Millie’s Hat Shop she can buy. Or they can tell time with Lulu at the Tutti-Frutti Zoo, where Lollipop Licking begins at 9:00 sharp.

Do you know your letters? Can you count to twenty? Learn all that and more in this all-in-one concept picture book. Perfect for kids heading to kindergarten, this book covers the alphabet, counting, opposites, shapes, colors, and seasons. Award winning author-illustrator Valorie Fisher uses bright, gorgeous photos of retro toys to illustrate these topics in a completely fresh way. Parents will love this stylish and funny approach to basic concepts, while kids will learn, well, everything.

Explore twenty-six amazing alphabet worlds, where every picture tells a tale! Meet Alistair, an alligator with an alarming appetite for acrobats; Igor, who sells irresistible...invisible...ice cream; and Holly, happily at home in her handbag. Visit Violet on vacation with a view of a volcano, marvel at Mario''s mechanical moustache machine, and daydream with Dot about dainty dump trucks. Children and adults alike will be delightfully dazzled by Valorie Fisher''s creative and imaginative miniature worlds, as they have fun finding familiar objects all the way from A to Z.

Meet my big sister. She''s HILARIOUS! TREMENDOUS! FABULOUS! When I grow up, I want to be as clever as she is.

Illustrations depict twenty-six outlandish scenes, one for each letter of the alphabet.