Book excerpt: Help preschoolers get ready for reading, writing, and numbers! This gigantic, 320-page book of creative, colorful activities will make learning feel like play. An A+ adventure unfolds, as kids encounter sensational squares and rocking rectangles, a giant newt reading the newspaper and a dinosaur playing the drums. Bold, bright colors and illustrations ease little ones into learning without feeling overwhelmed. Lessons focus on must-know readiness basics, including colors, shapes, the alphabet, basic phonics, early math, and more, and activities appear in order of increasing difficulty, so preschoolers stay challenged until the end, constantly expanding their skills. When all done, they can fill in their name on their very own reward certificate! The spiral-bound format means pages lay flat for ease of work and maximum concentration. When opened out flat, it can also fold over on itself, in half, to make a 9" X 10.75" lap-sized work surface while traveling or waiting somewhere without access to a table. School Zone products give kids their own Anywhere Teacher learning, anywhere and anytime!