Tana Hoban

White illustrations against a black background, alternating with black illustrations against a white background, depicting objects such as an elephant, butterfly, leaf, horse, baby bottle, and sailboat.

The reader views photographs of familiar objects, first through cut-out holes, then in their entirety.

Color photographs of letters, numbers, coins, and common objects introduce the alphabet, coinage, and the counting system.

Introduces, through photographs alone, heavy construction machines: earth movers, mixers, diggers, and others.

A collection of photograms of objects which begin with a particular letter of the alphabet.

The geometric concepts of circles, triangles, and squares are demonstrated in photographs of bubbles, windows, stacks of pipes, tires, boats, and other objects.

Photographs and dots introduce the numbers one to one hundred.

Full-color nature photographs are first viewed through a cut-out hole and then in their entirety.

Photographs illustrate words that suggest more than one of an object, animal, or person, such as stack, bundle, batch, and heap.