Matthew Van Fleet Books

Heads is a follow-up to the 2003 book Tails, which topped the New York Times bestseller list. Animals with wooly, bumpy, hairy heads and more appear in this collection of interactive pages.

Published August 24, 2010
Hardcover, 20 Pages
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 1442403799

See a curious cat, naughty cat, fat cat, nice cat and more. Much like Van Fleet's Dog, Cat includes pictures of real cats as well as touchable textures and push and pull tabs that make the cats move.

Published February 10, 2009
New York Times Bestseller
Hardcover, 20 Pages
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 1416978003

Read about animals from A to Z in Alphabet. The book features more than 100 creatures and plants with rhymes that teach kids opposites, synonyms and more. A free pop-up alphabet wall poster is in the back pocket of the book for even more learning opportunities.

Published April 8, 2008
New York Times Bestseller
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 1416955658

The colorful pictures capture children's attention. But it's the pettable pups, the pull tabs that let you wag a dog's tail or scratch his fleas and the addictive rhymes that helped Dog snag the number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list. The book also spent most of 2007 in the top 10 on the list.

Published February 6, 2007
New York Times Besteller
Simon & Schuster/Paula Wiseman Books
ISBN 1416941371

Feel the tails of all sorts of creatures -- alligators, tigers and more. There's also a stinky scratch and sniff tail of a skunk. Tails is one of Matthew Van Fleet's most popular books and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list.

Published October 1, 2003
New York Times Besteller
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Books
ISBN 0152167730

Patterned shapes are more than they seem in Spotted Yellow Frogs. A fold-out page reveals the pattern to be everything from tigers to butterflies. Spotted Yellow Frogs introduces patterns, colors, 3-D shapes and animals.

Published September 1, 1998
Dial Books
ISBN 0803723504

Pre-readers get their first glimpses at textures, colors, shapes and animals through interactive pages. Even though it was published more than 15 years ago, Fuzzy Yellow Ducklings continues to be a favorite parents read to their kids. The book has sold more than 1 million copies since it was first published.

Published September 1, 1995
Dial Books
ISBN 0803717598

The focus is on numbers in Matthew Van Fleet's first book. You begin with one yellow lion and work up to ten pink worms. Cute illustrations and fold-out pages engross children as they learn to count.

Published May 4, 1992
Dial Books
ISBN 0803710992