Most Popular Books by Tana Hoban

While walking through the park, a child sees a wondrous variety of animals.

Thirty familiar signs fill the pages of this handsome book, and invite the viewer to COME IN! "Right on target."--Booklist.

Crisp, clear, full-color photographs show all the fascinating machines and earthmovers found at a construction site. Even the very youngest readers will want to put on hard hats! "The roaring power of 13 construction machines is captured in clear, brilliantly colored photographs." -- Booklist

Black and white photos illustrate fifteen pairs of opposites such as front-back, first-last, push-pull.

Whenever you are -- inside or outside -- there are shapes to discover. And with Tana Hoban''s help you will begin to see them. Look around. How many circles, squares, stars, triangles, hearts, and rectangles can you see? They are everywhere!

Share these familiar shapes with your baby. It is never too early to look and talk together!

"This imaginative, wordless book of color photographs is a visual treat, offering witty and subtle sets of images for enriching the eyes of children and adults....[A] satisfying, intriguing book."--School Library Journal. Shadows and reflections are all around us -- under our feet, over our heads, directly in front of us. But only Tana Hoban can make us look at -- and see -- what is right before our eyes. She makes us look with our minds and hearts and imaginations -- and our surroundings are forever changed.

Tana Hoban never ceases to mesmerize and stimulate her young admirers. Using her unmistakable full-color photographs and an intriguing die-cut format, she has created a striking concept book that will have young viewers scrutinizing and thinking about what they see -- and don''t see. In the tradition of Just Look and Take Another Look, here is yet another window of discovery to our everyday world.

Over twenty-five years ago Tana Hoban stunned the children''s book world with her innovative black-and-white photographs in Count and See. Now she returns to the subject, and her glorious full-color pictures add a new dimension to the excitement and fun of counting when numbers are still fresh and something to be mastered. From one to one hundred -- Let''s Count!

By viewing nine subjects both in full-page photos and through die-cut pages, the reader learns that things may be perceived in different ways.

Brief rhyming text and photographs follow a kitten as it explores its surroundings.

Share this book with the baby in your life. It’s never too early to read together! From the eminent photographer and acclaimed book creator Tana Hoban, this bestselling large format board book features thirty-four bold black-and-white high-contrast images to engage babies and very young children. Tana Hoban’s board books have sold more than a million copies and are beloved by teachers, librarians, parents, and readers. A perfect gift for new parents and babies. Before they are able to clearly see colors, babies respond to the strong contrast between black and white, which makes this the perfect first book for young, developing brains. Experiencing bold black-and-white contrast helps stimulate development in the retina and the optic nerve. This large-format, sturdy board book features high-contrast art from four bestselling Tana Hoban board books: Black on White, White on Black, Who Are They?, and What Is That? These classic and popular books have sold more than one million copies. About Black on White and White on Black, Publishers Weekly said, “Hoban’s compositions are so supple and her layouts so well balanced that she casts kind of a spell . . . magical.”

A picture book of photographs of round objects.

What color do you see? Red? Yellow? Blue? Here is a concept book young children can grow with, as they explore colors, sizes, shapes, and relationships with the master of the photo-concept book '' Tana Hoban.

What are the colors of your world? Where do you see these colors? Have you seen them anywhere else? Join Tana Hoban for hours of fun and colorful investigations.

An innovative concept book that is two books in one. Learn the alphabet A to Z and count 1 to 99 using a combination of coins.

"In this wordless picture book....Attention-grabbing color photographs float in the middle of each page, accompanied by a color graph that pictorially represents the proportions of the various colors found in each picture. The result is an engaging color game with many uses. Very young children will enjoy naming the pictured objects, while older readers will be drawn into exploring the colors'' varying tones. A book children will come back to over and over." -- Horn Book.

If you know the 26 letters of the alphabet and can count to 99 -- or are just learning -- you''ll love Tana Hoban''s brilliant creation. This innovative concept book is two books in one!

Leap-frogging over a fire hydrant, ducking under "London Bridge," crawling through a pipe tunnel -- Tana Hoban''s brilliant photographs of children transform these activities into a fascinating exploration of spatial concepts. There are twelve concepts in all -- and some surprising discoveries for the young child. As in Look Again! and Count and See, Tana Hoban has created an imaginative and provocative adventure into the many ways of seeing.

Features fourteen panels illustrated in black and white with familiar objects from your child''s ever-growing world as well as full-colour photographs of babies interacting with these objects.

Share these familiar objects with your baby. It is never too early to look and talk together!

Babies and toddlers will enjoy looking at these familiar objects while they splash in the bath.

The geometric concepts of circles and squares are shown in photographs of wheels, signs, pots, and other familiar objects.

Brilliant photographs present a world of possible opposites. "Beautiful, elegantly composed, nourishing to eye and mind."--Kirkus Reviews. "Another winner from an artist with a seemingly unlimited imagination."--Horn Book.

Tana Hoban introduces the youngest viewer to the idea of size relativity. "Hoban demonstrates once again her mastery of elements of composition, such as color, texture, and balance."--Horn Book.

"Similar in format and concept to Take Another Look...the book is vintage Hoban. The photographs...are exquisitely planned and executed....Crystal clear, beautifully composed, and a treat to view."--Horn Book.

Share these animals and their babies with your baby. It is never to early to look and talk together!

Photographs of common objects with the color of each object printed below introduce the reader to colors.

While babies and toddlers enjoy a fun-filled splash in the bath, they learn all about the vivid world of colors.

A concept book in which photographs of objects appear in part, as a whole, & then as a part within a composition.

MIchael Goes to the Doctor is a pictorial book demonstrating a child''s trip to the ophthalmologist. It is a book useful to ophthalmologists educating them an approach to a child examination. It is also useful to parents to understand what to expect when they take their child to the eye doctor

The coins are shiny. But they are also round, and there are five of them. One is over another, and one is under. The tree is rough. It is also brown and tall. And how about the stones? And the turtle? And the cotton candy? All the objects in this stunning book are textured -- they are rough, or smooth, or shiny, or sticky, or wet, or furry. But they are also lots and lots of other things. The more you look at the pictures, the more you will see. How much can you tell about each photograph? Once you start, it will be hard to stop!

Tana Hoban knows what fires the eyes and minds of her young admirers the world over. And with every click of her camera, she zooms in on a new discovery--like this treasure trove, a full-color lesson on quantities. Look at the stacks of brightly colored teacups, the racks of shiny new shoes, the bin full of mouth-watering candies. Where are there more? Or fewer? Or where is there less? The questions and answers depend on what (and how) you see. Like the distinctive photographs, it''s all a matter of vision.

A series of five photographs show the three most familiar geometric forms.

Photographs illustrate words that suggest more than one of an object, animal, or person, such as stack, bundle, batch, and heap.

Photographs demonstrate the spatial concepts expressed in twelve words such as around, across, between, against, and behind.

Panda spends a busy day eating, drinking, playing, and finally sleeping. On board pages.