Since my daughter is quite little (7 months) but happens to sit in on our reading times, I was delighted to see a picture book that is somewhat related to rainforests at her level. Our current learn-at-home subject for my four-year-old is rainforests, especially the Amazon. Good Morning, Toucan (Dwell Studios, Blue Apple Books 2011)

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Do You Know Which Ones Will Grow? by Susan Shea (2011, Blue Apple Books) is simple, delightfully fun picture book for the discerning child. Using windowed lift-the-flap pages, Shea asks which things around us grow, using familiar growing progression as a comparison. For example, my favorite one was this, “if a kit grows and becomes

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