Animal ABC

Animal ABC: Playful Animals Teach A to Z is a colourful and imaginative ABC board book for babies and toddlers aged 0-3 years, designed to make first alphabet learning fun and memorable. Each letter from A to Z is paired with a playful animal and a humorous activity, helping little learners connect letters, animals, words, and actions through engaging illustrations and simple text.

From an elephant washing behind its ears and a flamingo playing the flute to a monkey drinking milk and a narwhal nose-diving, this animal alphabet book for toddlers turns ABC learning into an entertaining reading experience. The bright artwork, large letters, playful language, and sturdy padded board book format support early vocabulary, letter recognition, observation, and language development while making the book easy for little hands to explore.

What Kids Learn

• Recognise letters A to Z of the English alphabet
• Associate alphabet letters with different animals and simple words
• Build early vocabulary and language skills through playful animal actions
• Develop observation and picture-recognition skills through colourful illustrations

Key Features

• Engaging animal ABC book for babies and toddlers covering letters A to Z
• Features playful animal characters doing fun and surprising activities
• Bright illustrations and large alphabet letters support easy visual learning
• Sturdy padded board book for children aged 0-3 years and repeated reading

Learning Benefits

• Supports alphabet recognition and early literacy development
• Encourages vocabulary building through animal, action, and letter association
• Helps strengthen memory, observation, and visual learning skills
• Encourages an early interest in books through humorous and imaginative storytelling

Perfect For

• Babies and toddlers aged 0-3 years beginning their alphabet learning journey
• Parents looking for a first ABC book and animal book for toddlers
• Home learning, nursery reading, bedtime, parent-child reading, and early years education
• A thoughtful padded board book gift for babies, toddlers, birthdays, and young learners

Maria Harding was born in Oxford, UK and has an honors degree in Fine Art from Liverpool University (1997), UK, specialising in painting figurative work. She describes herself as a professional graphic designer for the past twenty years and an unofficial artist her whole life. In her professional career spanning over two decades, she has worked with a wide variety of companies, a few being The BBC, Hotel Chocolat, Fairfax, Weldon Owen kids' books, Cambridge University, Laureate University and some amazing musicians and artists along the way. From 2011-16, she ran a successful business painting custom stencil portraits, and was selected as a finalist for The Stencil Art Prize in 2013 and 2015. She is now specialising as a portrait artist using a more free flowing technique with water colours.She currently resides in Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia along with her musician husband Tom, son Ben and dogs Charlie and Snoopy.