KEY BENEFITS:

• Develop fine motor skills;
• Observe colors in motion;
• Listen for different sounds;
• Practice visual awareness;
• Develop visual tracking skills by watching beads move through translucent rattle;
• Experience cause and effect!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Develop fine motor skills by encouraging baby to hold and turn toy while exploring a variety of colors, shapes, textures;
• Listen for chime sound by moving and shaking toy;
• Promote tactile stimulation and exploration;
• Encourage small motor dexterity as baby grabs and holds toy;
• Enjoy extra visual stimulation with cheery face graphic;
• Use for fun on the run with loop for attaching to Boomerings®;
• Stimulate or soothe self independently!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Provide pleasant auditory stimulation vital for early language development;
• Use gentle, engaging song lyrics to introduce phonemic training, opposites, manners, simple Spanish, counting skills, and more;
• Encourage family sing-alongs and beginning reading skills with the combo fold-out lyric booklet;
• Build alphabet awareness and teach letter sounds with colorful ABC Learning Chart;
• Create a relaxed, judgment-free learning climate;
• Bring song lyrics to life with objects around the house;
• Stimulate brain activity while resting, napping or traveling!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Build little muscles, hand-eye coordination, and motor skills;
• Promote feelings of security and confidence through touch;
• Recognize and point to images in illustrations;
• Develop early language cues with playful nursery rhymes and lullabies;
• Bond with your baby with these tips for interactive activities;
• Expand early learning vocabulary;
• Instill love of books with "baby's first library" experience!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Provide pleasant auditory stimulation vital for early language development;
• Foster early awareness and appreciation of musical sounds, rhythms and lyrics;
• Create a relaxed, judgment-free learning climate;
• Bring song lyrics to life with objects around the house;
• Foster letter recognition and beginning reading skills with the included alphabet learning chart;
• Promote thinking skills, motor skill development, coordination, and multi-sensory learning with suggested hand movements (included), or have fun together by making up your own movements;
• From the creator of the ever-popular Sounds Like Learning!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Identify, sort, and match colors and weights;
• Develop early science and math vocabulary related to addition, subtraction, balance, measurement and proportion;
• Practice counting skills;
• Predict outcomes;
• Experiment with and observe weighted combinations;
• Develop small motor skills;
• Promote imaginary play!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Identify shapes and underwater graphics printed on the blocks;
• Sharpen observational skills by identifying visual cues, like shapes and graphics, to complete the puzzle;
• Develop small motor dexterity;
• Sort, count, match, and stack block shapes;
• For younger children, build confidence, selfesteem and creative thinking with open-ended blocks that fit together to construct a variety of configurations;
• For older children, promote strategic thinking skills and introduce the concepts of balance, weight and gravity;
• Activity Guide and Puzzle Template included.

KEY BENEFITS: For a complete product description of each item in the collection, please view each item individually (available in the Shopping Cart). Individual Products are listed below:

• The Musical Life of Gustav Mole Book & CD
• Gustav Mole Puppet
• Gustav Mole Families Game

KEY BENEFITS:

• Learn about character attributes and character interactions;
• Develop observation skills;
• Strengthen listening, decoding, and comprehension skills;
• Identify sounds produced by individual instruments;
• Enjoy story featuring a series of events that take place in sequence over time;
• Observe changing story settings;
• Stretch imagination by speculating on story outcomes throughout text;
• Strengthen descriptive language related to music and the arts;
• Foster imaginary thinking!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Encourage story retelling;
• Allow book character and prop to "come to life;"
• Promote oral expression;
• Strengthen listening skills;
• Includes activity guide with opportunities for dramatic play and storytelling experiences that extend beyond the book;
• Aid story comprehension with puppet that can move and "play" musical instrument;
• Support imaginary play!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Recall and identify characters and musical instruments presented in the book;
• Strengthen reading skills by identifying labels and numbers printed on cards;
• Practice matching illustrations;
• Group cards into "quartets" according to different attributes (e.g., members of musical instrument families, and members of animal families.);
• Foster memory skills with games that ask players to recall card content;
• Support positive social skills, such as taking turns and the ability to accept game outcome;
• Play in multiple ways, depending on child’s skill, ability and interest;
• Foster love of literature through play!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Learn about character attributes;
• Develop observation skills;
• Strengthen listening, decoding, and comprehension skills;
• Explore elements of persuasive narration;
• Stretch imagination by speculating on storyteller’s identity;
• Strengthen story sequencing and descriptive language;
• Explore possible and implausible story solutions;
• Make educated guesses based on story text and by drawing attention to visual clues;
• Foster imaginary thinking!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Encourage story retelling;
• Allow book character and props to "come to life;"
• Promote oral expression;
• Strengthen listening skills;
• Includes activity guide with opportunities for dramatic play and storytelling experiences that extend beyond the book;
• Aids story comprehension with plush strawberry that can be divided in half;
• Support imaginary play!

KEY BENEFITS:

• Recall and retell story elements through book illustrations on cards;
• Strengthen decoding and comprehension skills by revisiting story passages printed on cards;
• Practice visual matching skills;
• Practice matching passages to each other and to supporting illustrations;
• Strengthen story sequencing skills;
• Support positive social skills, such as taking turns and the ability to accept game outcome;
• Play in multiple ways, depending on child’s skill, ability, and interest;
• Foster love of literature through play!