Jill McDonald Books in Order

The familiar nursery rhyme about a baker making a cake becomes a book for babies and toddlers to explore. Illustrations accompany the verse, while a soft cover and cloth tabs add textures for small hands to discover.

Removable puzzle pieces introduce young children to basic shapes in this interactive board book. Each spread invites readers to lift a shape, discover a hidden surprise, and explore early concepts through hands-on play.

A first look at space introduces babies and toddlers to the sun, moon, stars, and planets. Bright illustrations, basic facts, and prompts to notice colors and shapes encourage young readers to explore the sky with an adult.

This illustrated board book introduces young children to weather and seasonal changes. Simple explanations, questions, and familiar clothing choices connect what toddlers see outside with the ways people prepare for different kinds of days.

Toddlers meet familiar backyard insects through colorful pictures and simple facts about their appearance and behavior. Prompts to point, count, and notice details encourage children and adults to investigate the small creatures living close to home.

Young children discover birds through bright illustrations, simple explanations, and familiar sounds. Questions and observation prompts invite toddlers to notice the creatures around them while adults help connect the pictures with everyday encounters outdoors.

This board book introduces toddlers to dinosaurs such as Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus rex. Colorful pictures and short facts highlight their different bodies, while questions and pointing activities invite children to explore the prehistoric world.

Toddlers explore their bodies through pictures and simple descriptions of eyes, ears, fingers, toes, and other familiar parts. Counting and observation prompts turn shared reading into a first introduction to how children recognize themselves.

Toddlers meet Arctic wildlife and discover how animals survive in a cold environment. Simple facts explain eating, sleeping, camouflage, and warmth, while colorful illustrations and questions encourage shared observation of these unfamiliar habitats.

Children follow an apple’s journey from seed to young tree, fruit, and food. Simple facts and colorful illustrations introduce what growing plants need, linking familiar orchard visits and snacks with an early understanding of nature.

The story of Apollo 11 introduces toddlers to the first journey that put people on the moon. Illustrated explanations show astronauts, spacecraft, spacesuits, and the ground team, connecting a historic mission with children’s curiosity about space.

An illustrated introduction to oceans helps toddlers discover the plants and animals beneath the waves. Short explanations, counting opportunities, and prompts to notice details connect familiar trips to the beach with a much larger underwater world.

Young children explore familiar pets, from dogs and rabbits to fish, frogs, and lizards. Bright illustrations and simple facts introduce different animal companions while encouraging toddlers to think about the care and attention they need.

A visit to a construction site introduces toddlers to large machines and the work they perform. Colorful illustrations, simple explanations, and lively sounds help children notice how equipment lifts, moves, and builds the world around them.

Toddlers explore Earth through simple facts about continents, countries, oceans, habitats, and landforms. Colorful illustrations and questions connect the places people and animals live with our planet’s position in the wider world of space.

Young children explore a rainforest and meet the animals that live there. Bright pictures, familiar sounds, and brief facts make this habitat approachable, while observation prompts encourage adults and toddlers to investigate each page together.

This illustrated board book introduces snakes, lizards, turtles, tortoises, crocodiles, and alligators. Simple facts and observation prompts help toddlers notice the different ways reptiles look and live, connecting early vocabulary with curiosity about animals.

Young children meet baby animals and discover how wildlife families care for their young. Colorful illustrations and short explanations connect familiar ideas about parents and babies with the varied ways animals grow and survive.

Cars and trucks introduce toddlers to a variety of vehicles and the ways they move. Bright pictures, simple facts, and read-aloud sounds encourage children to observe familiar machines while exploring early ideas about transportation and technology.

Toddlers discover musical instruments and the sounds they produce through bright illustrations and simple explanations. Read-aloud effects and observation prompts invite children to connect familiar music with the different shapes and workings of instruments.

An illustrated farm visit introduces toddlers to growing plants, helpful animals, hardworking farmers, and their equipment. Simple facts connect the work of planting and harvesting with rural life, encouraging children to notice where food begins.

Children explore sharks through facts about their size, speed, habitats, lifespans, and relationships with other animals. Illustrations and questions introduce both living and prehistoric species, alongside ways people study and help protect them.

This illustrated guide helps children explore planets through facts about their size, distance, days, and years. Space missions, a solar-system chart, and questions for readers extend the subject beyond a first board-book introduction.

Toddlers explore how gardens grow and how plants become food. Bright illustrations and simple explanations follow roots and shoots while questions invite children and adults to connect the pages with growing things around them.

Young children discover airplanes and other flying machines through colorful illustrations and short explanations. Facts about different ways humans take to the air introduce early ideas about transportation, invention, and the history of flight.

Young children investigate rocks and minerals through colors, shapes, sizes, and simple facts. Illustrated examples connect outdoor discoveries with everyday objects, while questions encourage toddlers and adults to notice the materials in the world around them.

Toddlers explore winter through snowflakes, storms, snowplows, and outdoor play. Colorful illustrations, simple facts, and observation prompts connect familiar cold-weather experiences with an introduction to the shapes and science of falling snow.

Young readers explore prehistoric creatures ranging from familiar giants to small and swimming dinosaurs. Illustrated profiles explain their bodies, diets and size, while questions encourage children to think about the animals and the changing world they inhabited.

Young readers discover pollinators, rainforest insects and unusual ways bugs protect themselves. Illustrated profiles introduce their bodies, diets and habitats, while questions invite children to consider how insects live and the roles they play in the environment.

Young children prepare for a camping adventure through pictures of tents, camper vans, outdoor equipment and campfire treats. Simple facts and questions introduce stargazing and other outdoor experiences while encouraging families to talk about their next trip.

Young children discover what happens during a day at preschool or kindergarten, from classroom activities to lunch, recess and going home. Pictures and discussion prompts help families explore unfamiliar routines and ease worries about starting school.