Kindergarten Books – eng.al-fanoos

PRE-K

Bears on Chairs

Four chairs. Four adorable bears. All is well until Big Brown Bear shows up — what a stare! — and wants a seat. Can these clever bears put their heads together (among other things) and make space for one more? With endearing, expressive illustrations and a sustained rhyme in every line, here is a cozy tale that makes it clear there is room for ←

Bears on Chairs

Kisses for Daddy

When a grumbly Baby Bear refuses to give his father a goodnight kiss, their bedtime routine is transformed into a delightful game, as Daddy imagines all the different sorts of kisses that other animal babies give their dads.

Kisses for Daddy

One moose twenty mice

One Moose, Twenty Mice by Clare Beaton is an attractive book with images that kids love to explore. Each page is filled with animals and there is a cat that is hiding in each one. Can they find it? This is a great story for practising counting to 20, learning animal vocabulary and learning phrases such as, “Where’s the cat?”

One moose twenty mice

May I please have a cookie

Alfie loves his mommy's cookies, and he wants one more than anything! But grabbing for one, fishing for one, and dressing up as a cookie inspector don't seem to work. His mommy says there is a better way. What is it? Beginning readers will learn proper manners with Alfie as his mommy teaches him to say the magic words.

May I please have a cookie

Pete the cat & his magic sunglasses

Pete the cat wakes up in an irritable mood every morning. But, with the help of his magic glasses, he realizes that his good mood was inside him all this time. This is a book about the ability to look at situations from an optimistic viewpoint.

Pete the cat & his magic sunglasses

The Lost Key

A new version to the children’s song-game from the Arab heritage.

The Lost Key

Who is this?

Hind visits the zoo and describes the different animals for the young readers by using riddles. This is an interactive text, rich in descriptive language which develops different thinking skills.

Who is this?

KINDERGARTEN

The Mouse and his Three Friends

When the deer is caught in a hunter's net, his three friends - the crow, mouse and turtle - come to his help, each in his own way. A rendition of the classical Arabic tale of "Kalila and Dimna" about helping friends in need.

The Mouse and his Three Friends

How to heal a broken wing

n a city full of hurried people, only young Will notices the bird lying hurt on the ground. With the help of his sympathetic mother, he gently wraps the injured bird and takes it home. In classic Bob Graham style, the beauty is in the details: the careful ministrations with an eyedropper, the bedroom filled with animal memorabilia, the saving of ←

How to heal a broken wing

Move mountain

Being on the wrong side of the valley doesn't matter if you have the right kind of friends. Mountain had never seen the sun rise. Each morning, the hills around him were washed with a warm glow - sometimes pink, sometimes orange. But the sun always rose behind his rocky back. So, one morning, Bird and Bear put on an ingenious and spectacular ←

Move mountain

Will Rani’s eyes become square?

"Ringo must not get square eyes" is Martin Sommer's humorous and topical book about the boy Ringo, who prefers to spend all day behind a screen. But Ringo's father doesn't think it's a good idea - you get square eyes. If Ringo got a fiver for every time his dad said that phrase, he could soon buy a whole house! But Ringo is not rich, and he is ←

Will Rani’s eyes become square?

The Bridge

A bear and a giant come face to face halfway across a long, narrow bridge— each trying to reach the opposite bank of the river. How will they both manage to get across the bridge without falling, or shoving each other off the edge? The resolution the two come up with illustrates the advantages of thinking creatively and collaboratively in ←

The Bridge

The Day the Elephant Flew

This book is inspired by an ancient Indian folk tale, which tells the story of a little girl who visits the circus with her mother and asks her about the elephant who is unable to free himself despite being attached to a small peg. It is a story about having confidence in our abilities as a way of self-expression and a means of celebrating ←

The Day the Elephant Flew

The Wise King

This is an Arabic folk tale about a king who asks his three children to fill the entire large palace hall, so that one of them can inherit the whole kingdom after him. Thanks to her wisdom, the princess succeeds in granting him his request.