One Thousand Things by Anna Kövecses

This would be a wonderful book to share with a preschool child. It is filled with things, although I don't think there are actually one thousand. You will also have fun searching for the little mouse on every page.

There are seven lists  - things to learn, things to do with you, things around the world, things in nature, things that you can do, things inside your house and things outside your house. Each list has around five double spreads. For example: Things to do with you - What are the parts of your face called? What are your five senses? What are the different parts of your body? What would you like to wear today? Who is in your family? My favourite pages are What can you find in the shed? and What are the parts of your face called?

Though there are many words and objects in 'One Thousand Things', unlike some other 'first word' books that I have seen, this edition goes beyond pages of themed things. What is presented here are concepts; the stuff of everyday life that grownups may take for granted but little ones must learn. Weather, body parts, colours, seasons are all introduced with a question to frame them and encourage interaction. Book Bag

The sound track might drive you crazy but you can see inside this book here - really though don't use the video - this is a book to hold in your hand, to share slowly, to dip into, and to talk about.

This book was published in 2015 but it is still available. It is from a series called Learn with Little Mouse. I picked up my copy at a charity book sale yesterday for just $5 (the retail price is $25).

Anna Kövecses is a Hungarian born artist living between a small seaside village of Cyprus and a woodside cabin by Lake Balaton, in Hungary. Her digital collages are characterised by simple organic shapes, bright colors and an atmosphere of simple naivety. Her inspiration comes from living by the Mediterranean Sea, growing up in Eastern Europe, being the mama of three small kids, baking fresh bread in the morning, picking oranges and growing veggies in their garden. When not working on commissioned projects she creates paintings in oil, experiments with clay ...

Take a look inside her Hungarian Alphabet Book.

This book is the result of a very personal project aiming to introduce a little girl to the 44 letters of the Hungarian alphabet. Illustrations were carefully designed so that every subject that appears in this book is something she's currently very much interested in. So in one way this book is not just a tool but also a diary documenting a four-year-old little girl's world in the summer of 2013 on an island of the Mediterranean Sea. On the other hand though, hopefully it will also serve as an equally exciting source of knowledge and inspiration for anyone interested in languages or design.