Recommended Children’s Books

We recently bought Graham Base’s The Water Hole for our young child. It is a beautifully illustrated book that teaches ecology, math, geography. The story centres around a water hole that shrinks as more animals arrive at it with each new page. At the same time the water hole moves continents with each new page. Around the perimeter of the page are a number of animal silhouettes and these animals are drawn again in the main page in camouflage.

The Water Hole also illustrates the principles of parallelism, small multiples and visual confection that are described in Visual Explanations.

Do you know this book, and if so what do you think of it? Are there other children’s books by different authors that you might recommend?