What does an elephant do? It stomps its foot. Can you? Fromthe creator of such beloved classics as "The Grouchy Ladybug" and"The Mixed-Up Chameleon" comes this interactive story that inviteskids to imitate animal movements. Watching giraffes bend theirnecks or monkeys wave their arms is fun, but nothing could bebetter than joining in. From their heads down to their toes, kidswill be wriggling, jiggling, and giggling as they try to keep upwith these animals Alligators wiggle, elephants stop, gorillasthump, and giraffes bend. Can you do it? ' I can do it ' is theconfidence-building message of this fun-filled interactive picturebook. A variety of familiar animals invite young children to copytheir antics, and as they play, they will learn such importantskills as careful listening, focusing attention, and followinginstructions. Just as alphabet books introduce the very young childto letters and simple words, From Head to Toe introduces the basicbody parts and simple body movements. And in the same way thatchildren progress from understanding simple words to reading andwriting sentences and stories, so they will progress from simplebody movements to dancing, gymnastics, and other sports andactivities, with confidence and pleasure. Eric Carle's colorfulcollages have delighted children for more than a generation. Eachbook provides hours of fun while encouraging them to stretch theirimaginations. His matchless words and illustrations now send out anew challenge: Are you ready? Here we go Move yourself From Head toToe.

Eric Carle Children learn about the natural world in EricCarle's original, charming books, which include classics such asThe Very Hungry Caterpillar and Papa, Please Get the Moon for Me.Carle's vivid tissue-paper illustrations and innovations in bookdesign have made him an author whose longevity and continuedpopularity are testaments to his beloved status among young readersand parents. Biography Ever since he began innovating the look andfunction of children's stories in the late 1960s, Eric Carle hasremained an author whose stories reliably hit the bestseller listsand remain on kids' bookshelves through generations. He began as adesigner of promotions and ads, and one illustration of a redlobster helped jump-start his career. The lobster caught the eye ofauthor Bill Martin, Jr.; Martin asked Carle to illustrate thenow-classic 1967 title Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? anda career was born. Born in Syracuse, New York but brought by hisimmigrant parents back to Germany when he was six, Carle waseducated in Stuttgart and designed posters for the United StatesInformation Center there after graduating from art school. Hefinally returned to the country he missed so much as a child in1952. He eventually began procuring work on children's titles, andfound himself becoming increasingly involved in them. "I feltsomething of my own past stirring in me," he wrote in a 2000 essay."An unresolved part of my own education needed reworking, and Ibegan to make books -- books for myself, books for the child in me,books I had yearned for. I became my own teacher -- but this timean understanding one." He began his career with the 1968 title 1,2, 3 to the Zoo; but his next title, The Very Hungry Caterpillar,is what still endears him to young readers today.