Three books for toddlers with hidden animals

> Funny kittens

Frimousse’s kittens have disappeared. We go exploring in all the rooms of the house and in the garden. On each cardboard page is an open window, or a skylight, which gives a glimpse of what’s next… But still no little cats. We will have crossed a family of dogs in the veranda, lizards and ladybugs outside, as well as two fish in the window of the washing machine before finding the kittens, and the big mess they made in the kitchen.

> Back to back

Would you recognize a raccoon from behind? And a green monkey? Not easy ! On each page of this small square book, the back of a new animal is drawn, which will only appear from the front on the following page. A very effective guessing game with the little ones, and not always as simple as it seems for the older ones, thanks to the playful drawings of Marion Deuchars.

> Undercover

There are a thousand and one ways to put Freud’s reel game into action. Watching his grandson play with a reel he tossed and then pulled at him saying “strong, da! » (“over there, here!”), the psychoanalyst observed there a playful symbolization of the separation from the mother: the child gradually integrates the permanence of the object, in other words the fact that this one does not stop exist when it is out of sight. In French, the “fort-da” is the “coucou-caché”, which all shrinks, early childhood staff and other parents practice diligently with young toddlers. So here is a “hidden cuckoo” of the animals. A hardcover book with clean lines, with a repetitive principle: on each page, an animal is hidden under a colored cover. Only exceed its legs and sometimes its tail. Who is hiding under there? Answer on last page.