Your little one is full of wonder! Especially about the big, bubbly, sandy, swimmy ocean! Designed especially for preschoolers, this interactive board book combines early learning with movement and play. Interactive elements help strengthen fine motor skills, finger strength, and hand-eye coordination and bring hands-on ways to inspire curiosity about our amazing oceans and the creatures that call them home. Through easy facts and explanations designed specifically for young kids, they'll learn about beaches, reefs, waves, watery habitats, and ocean animals, and discover the fascinating world above and below the water. So head to the shore, watch the waves, feel the sand, and wonder about all the amazing creatures living beneath the surface. The ocean is wonderful!
- Explore the Ocean Through Play: Flaps, wheels, tabs, and other interactive elements invite preschoolers to touch, turn, push, pull, and discover while learning about the ocean and sea life.
- Discover Life in the Ocean: Introduces beaches, reefs, waves, watery habitats, ocean animals, and other exciting ocean concepts through simple facts created for young learners.
- Build Fine Motor Skills: Touch and turn! Push and pull! Hands-on activities encourage children to grasp, turn, lift, and move different elements, helping strengthen little fingers and support hand-eye coordination.
- Early STEM Learning: Bold illustrations and age-appropriate explanations make this ocean book an engaging first step into science, nature, observation, and discovery for curious kids.
- Durable for Little Explorers: Sturdy board book pages are easy for young hands to grasp and designed to withstand repeated reading, learning, and interactive play.
Cottage Door Press is an independent publisher of high-quality children's books. We believe that every child deserves an excellent first book experience--beginning on the day they're born.
Reading is learning is our driving philosophy, and we strive to help parents understand why reading aloud from birth is so important. We offer a simple development-based guide to help them on their journey.
Rose Nestling is a pen name for the creative team at Cottage Door Press. We use a name like this when we work together on a story. We choose a name that stands for "red bird," which is our cheerful little mascot.
Cottage Door Press is an independent publisher of high-quality children's books. Our books are designed to spark curiosity in the littlest readers and fan the flames of lifelong learning. We understand children deserve our respect. That's why we always select artwork and stories that encourage caregivers to "read up" to their little ones--exploring interests together, learning together, and giving their young minds room to grow.
We also believe in creating stories that reflect the boundless possibilities of all children. We hope to create books that inspire little ones to connect, encourage them to dream, give them cause to celebrate, and allow them to see themselves beautifully reflected in the stories they read.
To bring these beautiful stories to life, our diverse and talented staff collaborates with authors and illustrators from all backgrounds and nationalities. We have also partnered with multicultural brands and literacy organizations to make sure our books reflect and reach as many little ones as possible.
I'm Daniela Sosa, a freelance illustrator originally from Romania and currently based in Cambridge, UK.
I am a graduate of the Children's Book Illustrations MA course at the Cambridge School of Art.
My main focus is children's books, but I also enjoy doing other types of illustration work. I work mostly digitally but like to create the look of traditional media in my illustrations.
When I'm not illustrating, I enjoy nature walks, old pubs and crafty projects.
