Elliot's Great Big

Publishers Weekly

Elliot the affable moose returns in an oversize board book with more than 60 flaps to help teach the basics: Elliot's Great Big Lift-the-Flap Book by Andrea Beck. As Elliot, Paisley the bear and Socks the monkey set out to find their friends, readers help them locate Amy the lamb by lifting a box cover in the living room; the characters then transform the box into a playhouse. Along the way, flaps help youngsters to learn opposites (readers lift a door reading "closed" to discover it's "open" on the other side), shapes, colors and numbers.