Books - Educational

Encourages musical expression Builds matching & fine motor skills Supports language & literacy skills Ten different learning songs teach c...

Explore the prehistoric world.  Learn fun facts about dinosaurs. Discover the reptiles that flew and swam. Knowledge helps kids shine! The Smiths...

Expand your child’s knowledge with this exciting introduction to ten basic colors as they learn through lyrical writing and brilliant illustrations...

How do crocodiles attack? Why do hippos fight? And how do funnel-web spiders kill their prey? In this book you'll find the answers and lots more ab...

It's never too early to teach and show children the meaning of kindness and empathy. Introduce your little one to little acts of kindness in this a...

Cruising down the 5, rocking our Levis, and sipping a Cactus Cooler, we’re Californians, fosho. But, like, how do we pass these big California vibe...

Introducing Terra Babies at Home, a new board book series that presents plants, animals, and the environment to early readers from the intimacy of ...

A Richard Scarry board book full of busy workers with amazing jobs, including teachers, doctors, firefighters, and more! Richard Scarry’s Busytown ...

The groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, Women in Science by Rachel Ignotofsky, comes to the youngest readers in board format! Highlighting no...

A is for... This beautiful book is full of mythical friends, new and old, who all want to help you explore the alphabet. Whether your little one is...

Celebrate the unique beauty of America in this gorgeously illustrated luxury storybook treasure! From sea to shining sea, view gorgeous maps of off...

The world is full of wonderful words to learn so let's get started with prehistoric animals! Learn 100 prehistoric words the Smithsonian way! Curio...

Touch, read, and discover all about butterflies and moths with your toddler and Smithsonian Kids! Featuring special embossing to highlight fun fact...

It's time for Christmas Cheer! Introduce your baby or toddler to first Christmas words like star, elves, stockings, candy canes, and more with this...

Introduce your little one to the wondrous world of shapes in this adorable lift-a-flip sturdy board book. Explore colorful new scenes that highligh...

This chunky board book has especially thick flaps for baby to grasp and lift. Play a guessing game about opposites. Simple sentences reinforce futu...

In this colorful board book, every page is bursting with interesting animals and tons of things to discover! Curious readers will love meeting Feli...

The letter Z is missing! Help little Oakley find it in this charming picture book with photos of real squirrels! Oakley the Squirrel: The Search fo...

A funny rhyming story with phonic repetition and colorful illustrations specially designed to help children learn to read. “Goodbye!” cries Raccoon...

A fun and informative flap book introducing young children to the wonders of science. Science topics from nature to forces and the human body are b...

A comprehensive dictionary with over a thousand colour illustrations, over 10,000 entries and 25,000 straightforward definitions. Fully revised and...

The award-winning duo of Dianna Hutts Aston and Sylvia Long team up again, this time creating a gorgeous look at the fascinating world of beetles. ...

From the award-winning creators of An Egg Is Quiet, A Seed Is Sleepy, and A Butterfly Is Patient comes a gorgeous and informative introduction to t...

Award-winning artist Sylvia Long and author Dianna Hutts Aston have teamed up again to create this gorgeous and informative introduction to seeds. ...

Trek into the wild heart of the rain forest. Discover a world teeming with life. Dense and humid and filled with secrets, rain forests are home to ...

Take a stunning journey to the ends of the earth through the colorful, fluid motion of Photicular® technology. A stunning phenomenon, Photicular te...

Meet the Original Superheroes. Before there was Iron Man, Captain America, Batman, Black Widow, Wonder Woman, Hulk, or Black Panther...there was In...

This book introduces kids to the creativity of stitching patchwork, appliqué, and quilts. Using dynamic how-to photos and step-by-step instructions...

The family field guide to America's presidents, now updated for 2017 and featuring the 45th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump. Fandex...

Gross is back and viler than ever! From the author of Oh, Yuck! the book about science with over 610,000 copies in print, comes OH, YIKES!, an illu...

A is for Avocado . . . B is for Balboa Park . . . C is for Cable Cars . . . With D for Death Valley, H for Hearst Castle, and R for Redwoods, going...

Fact-filled, fun-filled, as interesting to parents as it is to kids, the How Come? series is the trusted source for lively, clear answers to kids’ ...

C is for Classic! This all-new hardcover edition of the beloved Sandra Boynton alphabet book pairs every letter from A to Z with a favorite animal ...

The kids are taking over the kitchen! Deanna F. Cook presents more than 50 recipes designed for the cooking abilities and tastes of children ages 6...

Meet Stegosaurus and Stegoceras (the head banger). An airborne giant, Quetzalcoatlus, with a wingspan the size of a WWII fighter. The meat-eaters: ...

Come face to face with our vanishing wildlife. Using unique Photicular technology, Wild brings to vivid life the animals who are under threat of ex...

We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery—on average, we find one new dinosaur species per week. The most fascinating among them take th...

A New York Times bestseller, Ocean is like being on a dive. Using Photicular technology, each image is like a 3-D movie on the page, delivering a r...

New York Times bestseller!The Atlas Obscura Explorer’s Guide for the World’s Most Adventurous Kid is a thrilling expedition to 100 of the most surp...

Crane Truck's Opposites: Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site introduces the concept of opposites in board book form to youngest readers.  Littl...

This lyrical story helps toddlers sing along with Cement Mixer, who churns out a rollicking alphabet rhyme while he shows Bulldozer that work can b...

Join Dump Truck on his colorfully busy day at the construction site! Little construction fans will love the colors that fill the world of the bests...

This board book Marie introduces the youngest dreamers to this Nobel Prize–winning scientist. When Marie was young, she was unable to go to college...

This board book Maya introduces the youngest dreamers to the powerful speaker, writer, and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou spent much of her ch...

This board book Amelia introduces the youngest dreamers to the world-famous aviation pioneer. When Amelia was young, she liked to imagine she could...

Explore the night sky. Learn about space travel. Discover astronaut fun facts. Curiosity helps kids shine! The Smithsonian invites little ones to...